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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Albo’s on board</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>404 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SENIOR Labor Left figure Anthony Albanese has strongly endorsed his party’s tough policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers, calling its previous stance on the issue “unsustainable’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, the Opposition transport and infrastructure spokesman, voted against the policy at Labor’s national conference last year, but has maintained the party line.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese also said he “got it wrong’’ last time he was in government, underestimating the “pull factor’’ created by undoing the Howard government’s offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I believe that you can be tough on people smugglers without being weak on humanity,’’ he told the ABC on Monday night. “There were issues … when I became a minister, I thought that the issue of pull as well as push factors when it came to <b>asylum</b> seekers … I underestimated that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I got it wrong. I got it wrong. We had a position that was simply unsustainable.’’ Mr Albanese’s comments follow weeks of political problems for Labor caused by public comments from at least 21 MPs and candidates who ­oppose Labor’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, particularly <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His comments will be a relief to Mr Shorten. Mr Albanese is a leading Left figure, popular across the party, and his words carry particular weight. However, he raised confusion by suggesting Canada could be a potential option for settling the 1000-plus <b>asylum</b> seekers stuck in limbo on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He seemed less enthusiastic about sending them to New Zealand (which has offered to take some of the Manus and Nauru <b>asylum</b> seekers) but twice mentioned Canada as an “obvious’’ possibility. This was the first time Canada had been raised in the political debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese highlighted the difference between Labor and the Coalition’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policies, including Labor’s extra $450 million to the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> and an increase in the humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he acknowledged the situation under the previous Labor government (when 50,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers arrived by <b>boat</b> and 1200 people died at sea) was unsustainable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We want to stop the people smuggling trade. We don’t want it to start up again. “But we want to also treat people humanely, which is why we want to remove the incentive (to come to Australia by <b>boat</b>) by doubling the intake, by engaging with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>,’’ he said.ellen.whinnett@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bribing of people smugglers appears lost at sea</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH GILL   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1070 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Surely paying taxpayer funds to those we're trying to put out of business is a problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a heated election campaign that is likely to go down to the wire, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull took to the podium of an Australian Border Force vessel in Darwin last week to announce that border security is a "political issue". Well, stop the presses.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is so little daylight, in fact, between the Coalition and the ALP on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy - both backing the twin pillars of <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing - that any opportunity to wedge the other side on this hot-button election issue is irresistible. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been falling over himself to point to alleged disunity in Labor ranks, and the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun last week gleefully outed seven ALP candidates that are distinctly queasy about the official party policy, while Jason Falinski, the new Liberal candidate for Bronwyn Bishop's seat of Mackellar, was also fingered for previously advocating a "humane approach" to refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It says something about how dire things have become that any Labor or Liberal MP urging a more tolerant - dare I say, just legal - approach to <b>asylum</b> is now considered a liability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's nothing particularly new here. Political figures in electioneering mode have a proud tradition of stoking the popular anxiety about refugees and playing fast and loose with the facts: think Pauline Hanson, or John Howard and Tampa or, nearer to hand, Peter Dutton, who last week opined that "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would pull off the seemingly implausible feat of stealing Australian jobs while also languishing on unemployment benefits. It's no great surprise, though, that Turnbull is making the most of any opportunity to spruik the <b>boat</b> turnbacks carried out under the government's gawkishly titled Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But leaving to one side the issue of whether the Coalition's policy of turning back boats did indeed stem the flow of irregular maritime arrivals - analysis by former senior immigration department officials suggests the decline was demonstrably related to other measures - one of the most disconcerting questions about the conduct of Operation Sovereign Borders has been lost at sea: did Australian officials pay people smugglers or not? Worse yet: is it Australian government policy to bribe those engaging in illegal activities in order to make the whole mess just go away?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Call me a nitpicker, but isn't this relevant? Doesn't it go to the beating heart of the government's credibility on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, and the yarn we've been spun: that the people smugglers' business model must be broken, that turnbacks will prevent deaths at sea and, above all, national sovereignty is all-important?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The investigations of the alleged bribery incident, referred to both the <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> and the Senate legal and constitutional affairs references committee mid last year, have yielded very little, thanks to a point blank refusal on the part of the government to furnish any information whatsoever. The Senate committee, which was due to report next month has now lapsed, but not before firing off a blistering interim report - just days before the election was called - that paints the government, and the minister's passive-aggressive insistence on "public interest immunity", in a most unflattering light.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's not hard to spot the problem, is it, with an alleged payment of $US32000 of taxpayer funds, by Australian government officials, to the very individuals we're ostensibly determined to put out of business? The further particulars of the incident, which don't improve matters at all, are allegedly thus: that a cargo of 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers, including a pregnant woman and three children, was transferred to two vessels of questionable seaworthiness furnished by Australian authorities and sent back into Indonesian waters where one ran out of fuel and the other foundered off Rote Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed this event, if accurately reported, lays bare the credo at the core of Operation Sovereign Borders, which is more concerned with the spectre of drownings witnessed by an Australian electorate than preventing deaths at sea per se, and clearly ranks Australian sovereignty over that of our northern neighbour. As for dismantling the business model of the criminal networks involved in people smuggling, it's not going out on a limb to suggest a policy of on-water financial inducements - or even just the repeated refusal by senior Australian officials to deny that bribery took place - might create an expectation of an alternate revenue stream for smugglers looking, no doubt, to restructure their enterprise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And what was Dutton's lacklustre response to repeated requests to confirm or deny? Disclosure is not, it seems, in the public interest because it could "enable an exploitation of confidential methodology" by people smugglers. But if, by methodology, the minister means the propensity of government officials to offer bribes to disappear this unpalatable policy problem from Australian waters, then surely said smugglers are by now fully acquainted with all details being denied to the Australian public, courtesy of the sophisticated criminal networks that Dutton is always banging on about. Or just the Jakarta Post, come to think of it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What's truly depressing is the realisation that no fancy footwork was even required of the minister to extricate himself from this sticky mess, just a lumbering insistence on "operationally sensitive information" and an obliging federal Opposition who went curiously quiet on the issue only days after it surfaced and have failed to pursue it with any resolve ever since. Why? Possibly because former Labor governments were also complicit in this dirty business, or maybe current leaders are simply unwilling to say some measures are beyond the pale, or undercut the narrative that they, too, are prepared to do whatever it takes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Either way, as deceptions go, this whole sordid affair - the facts of which we shall never know for sure - has a neat symmetry. Because the web of mendacity surrounding Operation Sovereign Borders, and the enduring silence of senior politicians and Australian authorities, underscores a fundamental truth: that our policies are not arrayed against people smugglers after all. But then, we already knew that, didn't we?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sarah Gill is an Age columnist who has worked as a writer and a policy analyst. She is undertaking postgraduate legal studies at the <span class="companylink">University of Western Australia</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SORRY BILL, YOU’RE JUST NOT RIGHT</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MARK LATHAM   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1067 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following Labor’s defeat at the 2004 election Bill Shorten, then a senior figure in the Victorian Right faction, wrote a campaign critique claiming the party had shifted to the Left and lost votes accordingly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On two issues — phasing out logging of pristine Tasmanian forests and opposing the American invasion and occupation of Iraq — this was a valid criticism.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Labor leader I’d got ahead of public opinion and mainstream thinking, even though within a few years I was vindicated on both questions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Tasmanian forest industry collapsed anyway, with the unemployed workers missing out on Labor’s generous 2004 adjustment package.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein lifted the lid on sectarian hatreds in Iraq, spawning the rise of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> and new jihadist threats internationally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In watching Shorten over the past 2½ years as Opposition leader, I’ve often thought about his 2004 critique.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he believes shifting to the Left is a vote loser for the ALP, why has he become the most dogmatically left-wing Labor leader since Arthur Calwell?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On each policy front — economic, social and cultural — he has moved the party closer to the Greens, antagonising the sensible, aspirational centre of Australian politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s economic policy is straight from the old Labor playbook: taxing and spending at every opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s campaigning on a higher tax burden for individuals, companies, superannuants, property investors, capital gains beneficiaries and cigarette smokers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is advertising “100 Positive Policies” but for many voters it feels like 99 of these involve tax increases.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the day the election was called, Shorten was asked on Seven’s Sunrise how he planned to grow the Australian economy. He pointed to two policies: education spending and bulk-billing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You grow the economy by making sure that when people are sick they can get to a doctor without having to pay a big copayment fee upfront,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is one of the most nonsensical things I’ve heard. There is no relationship ­between economic growth and bulk-billing. While education investments can help the economy in the medium to longer term (if spent the right way), their short-term impact is negligible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten is the first Labor leader in 50 years to go to an election without a plan for immediate economic and productivity growth. His tax policies are likely to damage the private sector at a time when consumer demand and investor confidence are fragile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has also moved Labor to the left with his embrace of the philosophical underpinnings of identity politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Post-structuralist Marxism argues capitalist social messaging and power structures are so debilitating for people that they can’t understand their true racial, sexual and gender roles in society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thus women are permanently oppressed by patriarchy. Ethnic minorities are the victims of embedded racism. All gender and sexual expression in society is fluid, meaning men can be women (and vice versa) whenever they choose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Post-structuralism was the brainchild of Michel Foucault (1926-84), a radical, socially deviant French philosopher.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foucault was opposed to the Age of Enlightenment, ­arguing that Western traditions of knowledge-based reason locked people into the “historical construct” of their identity “essence”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He aimed to liberate the individual from these ­oppressive, bourgeois influences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This philosophy has inspired the Safe Schools and Building Respectful Relationships programs introduced by the Victorian Labor government and supported by Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The programs’ authors have openly declared their commitment to post-structuralist Marxism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of them, Roz Ward from La Trobe University, told Melbourne’s Marxism 2015 Conference that: “The Safe Schools Coalition is making some difference but we’re still a long way from liberation; Marxism offers the hope and strategy needed to create a world where human sexuality, gender and how we relate to our bodies can blossom in extraordinarily new and amazing ways.” Identity politics has also been influential in guiding Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thirty Labor MPs and candidates have called for a softening of Australia’s border protection strategy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many more candidates hold this view privately.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If elected to government, a majority of the Labor caucus will want to abolish offshore processing, thereby restarting the people-smuggler trade This would repeat the mistakes of the Rudd-Gillard years, when more than 1200 <b>boat</b> people drowned. For ­rational observers, it’s impossible to comprehend the thinking behind this barbaric, pro-death position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Again, Foucault provides the philosophical justification. Post-structuralism maintains that if Australians weren’t so inherently racist, the boats could flow, allowing <b>asylum</b> seekers to express their true identity, free from the restrictions of national borders and laws. The maritime death toll is irrelevant to this leftist outlook.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As strange as it may seem for the party of Curtin, Chifley and Hawke, Labor’s True Believers now believe in national, racial, sexual and gender fluidity. All nature-given identities are temporary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mainstream reason and rationality have been replaced by neo-Marxist interpretations of society and the need for language policing (aka political correctness).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This has happened for three reasons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, in trying to reunite the Labor caucus after the chaos of the Rudd-Gillard era, Shorten has had to make ­significant concessions to the Left faction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inner-city MPs such as Tanya Plibersek, Anthony ­Albanese and Penny Wong have steered the party down the narrow post-structuralist path of identity politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, as the Labor base has narrowed, with falling branch and union membership, Labor has become more susceptible to left-wing influence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Early in his leadership, Shorten promised to democratise the ALP and reach out to mainstream community involvement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But then he did nothing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result has been a collection of kooky Labor candidates, unrepresentative of public opinion on key issues such as border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Third, even in Labor’s Right faction, Leftist social engineering has become popular.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most members of the Right were political staffers and union officials, tutored in the command-and-control politics of factional manipulation. Now they see themselves as legislative social engineers — the rise of “Right Lefties”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ten years ago, Shorten was a conservative union leader aligned to Victorian big business — a protege of Melbourne millionaires such as Dick Pratt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today he’s a leftist Labor leader attacking millionaires, pushing tax-and-spend economics and advocating neo-Marxist indoctrination programs such as Safe Schools.Will the real Bill Shorten please stand up.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Candidate chaos hands Greens a ‘free kick’ in Freo</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANDREW BURRELL   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREMANTLE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The turmoil that has engulfed the two major parties in the Labor-held electorate of Fremantle has given the Greens a “free kick” in their ambitious bid to snatch the seat.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In what is considered unprecedented in federal politics, it took just 12 days for the ALP and the Liberals to lose their first-choice candidates in Fremantle, the seat in Perth’s southern suburbs that has produced such heavyweights as John Curtin, Kim Beazley snr and Carmen Lawrence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Friday, Sherry Sufi resigned as the Liberal Party’s candidate over a string of controversies from his past that had emerged in the campaign. The Liberals on Saturday installed Pierrette Kelly, an adviser to senator Chris Back, as their new candidate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This came little more than a week after Labor’s Chris Brown was disendorsed because he failed to disclose convictions from the 1980s. Brown, a <span class="companylink">Maritime Union of Australia</span> official, was replaced by Fremantle Deputy Mayor Josh Wilson, chief of staff to outgoing Labor MP Melissa Parke.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Already, Wilson has found himself in a spot of bother after it emerged last week that he has been a vocal opponent of federal Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He now insists he supports <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore detention — a stance that will trouble many progressive voters in the historic centre of Fremantle, but gain greater support in the working-class suburbs of the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If voters in Fremantle are ­confused about the identities and beliefs of their candidates, this could play into the hands of the Greens, who believe they can ­secure more than 20 per cent of the primary vote and possibly even sneak home on preferences. The Greens shocked the political ­establishment by claiming the state seat of Fremantle in 2009, but the party’s best result at a ­federal poll was winning 18 per cent of the primary vote in 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Greens leader Richard Di Natale visited Fremantle last month, he made the bold claim that his candidate, local lawyer Kate Davis, could win the seat on July 2 because of rising dissatisfaction with the major parties. And that was before the extraordinary events of recent days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fremantle-based political sci­en­tist Martin Drum, of the <span class="companylink">University of Notre Dame</span>, said the Greens should be able to capitalise on the upheaval that has hit the two big parties, but it would be an uphill battle to actually win the seat. “The Greens have been given a free kick,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But it will be difficult for them to win given they only won 12 per cent of the primary vote in 2013.” Ms Davis said she thought people in Fremantle were increasingly disappointed with the major parties, pointing to the Greens’ strong showing at the 2014 Senate election re-run at which Scott Ludlam picked up 22 per cent of the vote in Fremantle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If we can still speak to those people who are happy to support Scott, and we build from there, then we are looking at the kinds of jumps that Adam Bandt made to win Melbourne,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Davis said she would campaign against Mr Wilson’s decision to back Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies. She believed voters in Fremantle would be disappointed he had not continued Ms Parke’s strong advocacy on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, she said the biggest issue among voters in Fremantle was the proposal — backed by the state and federal Liberal governments — for the controversial Perth Freight Link proposal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson said he had been an active local campaigner against the Freight Link plan for many years, and the best way to ensure it was stopped was for voters to elect a Shorten Labor government.He defended his stance on ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers, saying people who knew him understood that he had believed in showing compassion to refugees.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JAMES JEFFREY   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Put the <b>boat</b> in Bill Shorten has come a long way from the heady days of “I haven’t seen what she said, but let me say I support what it is that she’s said”. As he showed yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Journo: “Your candidate Bill Leadbetter earlier said that he believed that Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy is not merciful. How do you respond to that and what do you do to unify your party on this issue?” Shorten: “Well I didn’t see the exact comments to which you are referring, but I can state this, and again, this has been one of the big lies of Malcolm Turnbull during this election. He wants people to believe that somehow Labor is not equally committed to stopping the shameful people-smuggling and criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia putting people, vulnerable people, on boats and seeing them drown at sea. Well I have a clear message for Mr Turnbull, but even more importantly than that, for the people-smugglers in SE Asia: after July 2 if Labor is elected we will do everything we can, just like the Liberals will do, to stop the evil people-smuggling trade.” We trust this at least clarifies matters for Bill Leadbetter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arts and crafts Why say it with flowers when you can say it with papier mache? That at least seems to be the school of thought in the NSW seat of New England. Following on from the adventures of papier mache Barnaby Joyce (Strewth, Friday), the flesh-and-blood Joyce was at a street barbecue in the small town of Barraba, shadowed by a Four Corners camera crew and some political activists (under the umbrella of Voices for New England) parading around the barbie with a papier mache Tony Abbott head with the message “I’m backing Barnaby” and nearly big enough to contain Johnny Depp and both his dogs. They cadged a snag, and had an apparently less than fully successful go at engaging with the locals. The big Tony bonce also turned up at the Nundle dog races. Let it be said it’s an admirably well-constructed head. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for papier mache carp herpes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A roadside vision Speaking of visions, a note from reader Bob Liubinskas: “While caravanning through New England, my wife Nola saw a sign on a tree identifying a local church which had in capital letters ‘JESUS CHRIST’ with an arrow and there on the next tree Barnaby Joyce’s smiling face … seeking all the help he can get I imagine.” Either that or the Second Coming is panning out a bit counter to expectations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Campaign relief The discerning folk at Melbourne food-’n’-booze spot Cru have taken to Strewth’s Campaign Cocktail of the Day series in the most deliciously tangible way, informing their patrons: “Here in the microcosm of Australian society which is Cru, we feel that Strewth’s efforts are to be applauded, so in support of Mr Jeffrey’s noble endeavour, we have determined to follow his lead and offer Strewth’s Election Cocktail of the Day as a daily special for the duration of the election campaign.” So to today’s Campaign Cocktail, which name-checks not one but two candidates. In the yellowed depths of The Art of Mixing Drinks (1976 edition) we’ve found the Swan. You’ll need: the juice from one lime, a quarter of a jigger of gin, half a jigger of French vermouth, two dashes of absinthe and two dashes of Abbott’s bitters. Unusually, The Art of Mixing Drinks — which is very forthcoming in many areas, sometimes hilariously so — then marches briskly on from the Swan without further instruction. Luckily, the internet Cocktail Database directs us to shake it all in an iced shaker, then strain into a cocktail glass. Hopefully this Swan and Abbott inhabit your (ahem) lower house in harmony.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chelonian love As a turtle fan, we’d like to express our appreciation to Labor’s David Feeney for enthusiastically tweeting yesterday: “On this #WorldTurtleDay remember our duty to protect these beautiful, amazing endangered species.” It’s encouraging to see him show such empathy for a creature biologically incapable of forgetting its house. (We’ll close the door on the way out.)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Got there in the end Meanwhile in Sydney, NSW Sports Minister Stuart Ayres yesterday named the NSW State of Origin squad of 20 players alphabetically. All the scribes thought they had a good yarn on their hands when Blake Ferguson, Andrew Fifita and Tyson Frizell were read out, but vice-captain Robbie Farah was not. There was a small pause after the last name Aaron Woods — when Ayres suddenly found Farah and Bryce Cartwright on his list and announced them.strewth@theaustralian.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>I SPY MAL’S MENZIES MOMENT</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Williams   </td></tr>
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Malcolm Turnbull must learn from the Coalition’s 1954 election victory, writes Paul Williams THE Turnbull Government should be even more worried this week than last. Yesterday’s Newspoll might show the two-party-preferred vote unchanged at 51 to 49 per cent in Labor’s favour (with Labor’s already low primary vote slipping to just 36 points), but Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s rising popularity now sees him and Malcolm Turnbull equal in voter satisfaction. The Turnbull magic has been neutralised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Coalition does lose the July 2 election, future historians may look to two events last week as the campaign’s tipping point.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first was Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s claim that illiterate and innumerate refugees take Australian jobs while simultaneously joining unemployment queues. Some commentators claim Dutton’s cognitive dissonance – where two contradictory beliefs are held at once – was “dog whistling” to the disenchanted on capital city outskirts. Others say Dutton was merely dragging Labor back into a debate it desperately hopes to avoid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But did you notice how the usually shrill opposition to onshore processing was this time absent? Outside his colleagues, only a few arch-conservatives came out to support Dutton. We can only conclude the critical mass didn’t hear the dog whistle but instead saw a government – long defensive of offshore processing as prevention of deaths at sea – letting a very ugly cat out of a very loose bag. It seems offshore processing really is about keeping certain “types” away from Australian borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton’s comments clearly backfired largely because this is 2016 and not 2001. Most voters now know <b>refugee</b> policy is far more complicated than mere <b>boat</b> tow-backs and no amount of scorn can reverse that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The campaign’s second – and potentially more damaging – tipping point came in the <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> raids on Labor homes and offices last week as the AFP searched for evidence of leaked documents that painted Turnbull, as a former Communications minister, in a poor light against delays and cost blowouts in the <span class="companylink">National Broadband Network</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both the AFP and the Government insist the raids were conducted independently from ministerial influence, and that their timing during an election campaign was merely coincidental. And while Communications Minister Mitch Fifield knew the raids were coming, he didn’t tell the prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further investigation might find a repeat of the “plausible deniability” escape clause of the 2001 election where the then PM, John Howard, was not told the full story of what actually happened during the “children overboard” affair that unfolded just a month before polling day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Until there’s evidence to the contrary, we must believe Fifield and Turnbull. But that won’t stop conspiracy theorists going into meltdown and I suspect we’ll be talking about these raids for decades, just as many still shake their heads at the events leading up to the 1954 federal election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Exactly 62 years ago next week, the Menzies Coalition government won an election most, just a few months before, felt was surely lost. That election, too, hinged on a single event: the timing of the defection of a junior Soviet diplomat and probable spy, Vladimir Petrov, and his wife, Evdokia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just six weeks before the election, Menzies announced in Parliament that Petrov had sought refuge – isn’t there delicious irony in a conservative government gaining political advantage from the granting of <b>asylum</b>? – and that a royal commission into alleged Soviet spy rings in Australia would be held.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor MPs were fearful when their leader “Doc” Evatt agreed to appear at the inquiry which began just 10 days before polling day. Against a Labor Party divided over communism (Labor would irrevocably split in 1955), allegations Evatt was “soft” on communists and dramatic film footage of Evdokia being forced onto a plane to Moscow (later saved by ASIO agents), it’s little wonder the Coalition was returned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But despite long claims to the contrary, there’s no evidence Menzies engineered the timing of Petrov’s defection. Indeed, diplomatic wheels had been turning since late 1953. But the mere perception of engineering was enough to damage Menzies’ reputation then and later. After all, Labor actually won the two-party-preferred vote with 50.7 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact Menzies survived what appeared to be crass political interference was due to two points: the way Menzies handled the issue and the way Labor responded. To his credit, Menzies didn’t mention Petrov’s defection during the campaign (although some Coalition MPs did) and, to Labor’s regret, Evatt’s loud protests painted the leader very poorly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lesson for Turnbull is writ large. While Labor will inevitably continue to draw conspiracy links, the Coalition must resist any reference to the AFP raids and instead remind voters at critical junctures that Turnbull is neither Tony Abbott nor Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s all in the art of timing.Dr Paul Williams is a senior lecturer at Griffith University’s School of HumanitiesTwitter: @PDWilliams1</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANDREW BOLT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1148 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’S angry reaction to truth-telling about refugees shows it still doesn’t get it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians rightly fear some imported cultures and deserve honest answers at last.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But here we go again. Labor is halfway to losing another election by shouting “racist!” and “shut up!”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This time Labor and its media mates are trying to shout down the truths spoken last week by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked about the Greens’ promise to more than triple our <b>refugee</b> intake to 50,000 people a year, Dutton warned it would cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many refugees were illiterate even in their own language. They would struggle to find work and many would join our underclass — where, Dutton was too polite to add, dangerous resentments could fester.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All true. Yet Labor once again reacted with furious abuse. But Opposition Leader Bill Shorten didn’t only whack Dutton for his “divisive and offensive remarks”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also claimed Dutton and the Liberals were raising an issue few voters cared about: “They want to run a cry of xenophobia … because they don’t want this election to be about the issues that matter to Australians.” Pardon? How can Labor be in such denial 15 years after it lost an election over the Tampa, a ship effectively commandeered by illegal immigrants and turned back by the Howard government?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can it claim that importing tens of thousands of “refugees” is not one of “the issues that matter” just three years after losing government for letting in 50,000 <b>boat</b> people?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is madness, yet the Leftist media is feeding it by trying to howl down what the public obviously does want discussed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The debate set off by Dutton was just a “feral outbreak”, sneered the Sydney Morning <span class="companylink">Herald</span>, while The Age, its Melbourne stablemate, accused Dutton of “seeking to create and fan irrational fears”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Irrational? How can fears about refugees — and mass immigration from the Third World generally — be “irrational” after all we’ve now suffered?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just take the past three terrorist attacks in Australia: the Martin Place siege, the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng and the stabbing of two police in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All were by refugees or their children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet for too long our media has stifled such debates, sharing the view of Labor and Greens MPs that the less the public knows, the better.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For instance, SBS refuses to this day to show tape it shot of Sheik Taj al-Hilali, then our Grand Mufti, in his Lakemba mosque just before the 2001 terrorist attacks, praising suicide bombers as heroes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the less we were told, the worse it got.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, the Muslim refugees we took in during the Lebanese civil war shows the danger of ignoring exactly the kind of facts Dutton raised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1976, Malcolm Fraser as prime minister was privately warned by his own Immigration Department of what Dutton says publicly now — the Lebanese refugees we were taking in would struggle to fit in, lacking the skills, language and cultural compatibility. Then immigration minister Michael Mackellar even added that “a high percentage is illiterate”. Sound familiar?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More ominously, the Immigration Department warned of “the possibility that the conflicts, tensions and divisions within Lebanon will be transferred to Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fraser ignored them all and the media looked away. Yet how right those warnings were.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2011 Census, three decades on, showed nearly one in five Lebanese-born Australians still struggled to speak good English (even after including betterintegrated Christians). They earned a median income of just $333 a week on average, far below the Australian average of $577, and were four times more likely than the rest of us to be on a disability pension.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That costs us money. And it’s cost us our safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eleven of the 21 people since jailed here for terrorism offences are from Lebanese families, albeit not necessarily from <b>refugee</b> families.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What’s more, gun crime involving men of Lebanese background is extraordinarily high in western Sydney and now in northern Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You’d think we’d have learned, yet we’ve continued this same dangerous pattern of importing refugees likely to struggle to fit in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Melbourne now has an epidemic of unusual violence from the Apex gang, largely comprising Sudanese youths from <b>refugee</b> families. Again, attempts to warn of this danger two decades ago were screamed down by Labor and the media Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1997, immigration minister Kevin Andrews announced we’d take fewer refugees from Sudan because “some groups don’t seem to be settling and adjusting into the Australian way of life as quickly we would hope”. Crime rates were too high. Once again, he got the same “shut-ups”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor denounced Andrews as a racist. The Age newspaper abused him for making “inflammatory” remarks designed “to arouse a predictably base reaction from those sensitive to immigration on racial grounds”. Police chief commissioner Christine Nixon, a Labor hiring, even insisted “those Sudanese refugees are actually under-represented in the crime statistics”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nixon’s claim was untrue — the Sudanese crime rate was actually four to eight times higher than the average — yet no journalist of the Left ever criticised her for misleading voters in a debate with such serious consequences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So when will the Left finally accept there is something important to discuss?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not some “diversion” or “distraction” from the “real issues”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cost of refugees, multiculturalism and our absurdly high levels of immigration are the real issues, affecting everything from our crowded roads and trains to our safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What’s more, every week brings fresh reminders to voters why they are right to worry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just check last week’s news: POLICE mounted raids in Melbourne over an alleged plot by five Muslim men to join <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">POLICE arrested the son of Afghan refugees in Sydney over an alleged terrorist plot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MUSLIM men refused to stand for a Melbourne magistrate on the grounds that Allah forbade them to submit to her (and the magistrate took no action).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Greens vowed to bring in 50,000 refugees a year, regardless of cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN Egyptian passenger plane carrying 66 people, including an Australian, seems to have been blown up in a terrorist attack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NON-Muslim jail inmates in NSW complained they were being forced to convert to Islam by fellow prisoners who’d bash them if they refused.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Add to that not-unrelated news from the front lines of a war on our central culture — four more Christian churches have burned down in Geelong in six months, and the Greens are promising to strip churches of their right to fire staff who don’t live the faith.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Are these really not “issues that matter to Australians”?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That raise only “irrational” concerns? That should answered only with abuse?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A warning to Labor: start talking, or you’ll lose and lose again.So will Australia</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Rush to delete <b>boat</b> policy posts</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>143 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR has gone into damage control over <b>asylum</b> seekers, with their MPs and senators being privately told to delete any social media messages from their accounts that are critical of the party’s boats policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many have rushed to remove posts on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> and <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> in a bid to cauterise the damage the issue is inflicting on Labor leader Bill Shorten’s campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph discovered two Labor senators last Friday deleting a series of posts from their <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> accounts which opposed offshore processing and turning back boats — now policy under Mr Shorten.Senator Sue Lines deleted a series of tweets, including one posted four months ago calling for <b>asylum</b> seekers to be allowed to stay in Australia. Another Labor senator, Anne Urquhart, deleted a retweet that backed opposition to turning back boats.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE LEFT VILIFIED DUTTON BUT HE SPOKE THE TRUTH</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JENNIFER ORIEL   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The attack on the Immigration Minister highlights our irrational political climate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is no secret that there is a vocal flank of Left-leaning politicians, media and academics who want conservatives purged from public life in Australia. They succeed by underhanded tactics often using anonymous posts and ad hominem attacks on social media that culminate in the mobbing of a politically incorrect target.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once stamped with the Scarlet Letter, the mob uses guilt by association to keep the target isolated. The tactic was used against Tony Abbott and last week, the mob went after one of the few conservatives in cabinet, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton was subjected to mass opprobrium for referring to the struggle that refugees face with illiteracy and unemployment, as well as suggesting that the large increase in <b>refugee</b> intake proposed by the Greens could threaten Australian jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His comments were unqualified and too generalised, which left room for misinterpretation. In a rational and fair political climate, however, commentators would have attempted to correct any perceived factual error or generalisation by way of factual analysis. Unfortunately, we’re not in a rational political climate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leftist commentators and social media pundits took Dutton’s statement on Sky News and turned it into a rage against conservatives, Abbott associates and the government’s border integrity policy. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young described his comments as xenophobic. Greens leader Richard Di Natale called for him to be sacked. On ABC’s The Drum, Dutton was described as one of the “Abbottistas” causing problems for Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guilt by association is the mark of the mob in public debate. Dutton’s comments were read out of context and blown out of proportion. The outrage on social media and free to air television provided a convenient distraction that excused the PC Left from scrutinising the lunatic immigration policy proposed by the Greens. Taken in context, however, Dutton’s comments raise important issues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The immigration minister highlighted the problems many refugees experience with literacy. It should not have been read as criticism. Refugees often flee war-torn countries where a combination of civil conflict and corrupt governments deprive the general population of basic education. And anyone who has mastered a foreign language understands the challenges involved. The <span class="companylink">Australian Institute of Family Studies</span> undertakes longitudinal research on the experiences of people with permanent humanitarian visas in Australia. Their recent Building a New Life in Australia report found that three quarters of respondents stated they understood English “not well” or “not at all” before coming to Australia. However, 69 per cent of all adult respondents reported undertaking English classes. The finding is both a credit to refugees and the Coalition policy of concentrating funds in resettlement programs rather than the uncosted or unaffordable mass immigration policies proposed by the intemperate Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lower levels of literacy found among <b>refugee</b> populations produces further challenges for their aspirations to succeed in forging a new life in Australia. The <span class="companylink">Australian Bureau of Statistics</span> suggests that lower levels of English proficiency among humanitarian migrants may be related to their lower levels of employment. In 2010-2011, there were twice as many male as female humanitarian migrants and among those in employment, most worked as labourers. In its Settlement of New Arrivals report, the Department of Social Services states that: “Humanitarian entrants are heavily dependent on <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> payments and based on information reported in this survey that dependency reduces only slightly over time.” Dutton’s assertion that the Greens’ proposal to increase the <b>refugee</b> intake to 50,000 would be problematic has a factual basis. The problem with mass immigration proposals is compounded further by the state of the economy. Given the national debt is over $400 billion and foreign debt is over $1 trillion, all policies must be costed and contribute to deficit reduction. The one-off additional intake of 12,000 people from the Syrian conflict is costed at more than $700 million. The Greens’ plans to increase our annual intake of refugees to 50,000 will cost $7bn over four years, according to government estimates. Labor’s proposal to increase the intake to 37,000 is estimated to cost $2.3bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every policy has a tipping point. Principled politicians seek to maintain a balance that will empower the flourishing of the citizens they serve. Opportunistic politicians manipulate policy to further their political ambitions whatever the collateral damage. The Greens’ immigration policy is politically opportunistic. It is not compassionate to empower people-smugglers by vitiating against <b>boat</b> turnbacks. It is not compassionate to prioritise-<b>asylum</b> seekers with the money to jump the queue while leaving genuine refugees languishing in camps in war-ravaged countries. It is immoral to encourage tens of thousands of refugees to enter a country deep in debt without the economic means to support their long-term resettlement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a strong advocate of the free world and the border integrity its flourishing requires, Peter Dutton has steered the most contentious Coalition portfolio, immigration and border protection, through high turbulence. Operation Sovereign Borders remains a prime target of the red-green Left whose porous borders advocacy in the context of transnational jihadism is sheer lunacy.The Coalition has stopped the boats, saving lives and destroying people-smugglers’ return on investment. Malcolm Turnbull demonstrated both compassion and political astuteness in his vigorous defence of the Coalition’s immigration policy. Despite the push to purge conservatives from government, Dutton is still standing. We are the better for it.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gillim : Illegal Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160522ec5n00039</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160522ec5n00037" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Offshore detention ‘is all about torture’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>493 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b>-SEEKERS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens have accused the government of “intentionally” torturing refugees, after World Vision chief executive Tim Costello raised concerns about the mental state of <b>asylum</b>-seekers in offshore detention.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull yesterday deflected the criticism from the high-profile social justice campaigner, who said the government’s indefinite detention of refugees and failure to resettle them was causing serious mental harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There’s no question that the psychological torture of not being able to actually resettle, and you can’t go back home, is torture,” Mr Costello told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He pointed to the case of 21-year-old Somali woman Hodan Yasin, who set herself alight on Nauru, as an example of the ­mental anguish being experienced as a ­result of the government’s hardline <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Somalia is a terrifying place. You would flee that; I would flee that,” he said. “The thought of that young woman of desperation — indefinite stay on Nauru, can’t go back to Somalia, set herself on fire; that’s the sort of psychological ­torture I think is going on.” Mr Costello said the “lifelong indefinite torture” in offshore ­detention was in contrast to the Howard government’s so-called Pacific Solution policy, which had stopped the boats, but also “quietly” resettled those found to be ­refugees in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens seized on the comments to suggest the government-run Manus Island and Nauru detention centres were “not only torturous, but … intentionally ­designed to be so”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These camps are clearly ­designed to be torturous,” Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said. “This policy of offshore ­torture, so cherished by the Labor and Liberal parties, is destroying ­people right in front of our eyes.’’ Dismissing the criticism, the Prime Minister said he did not ­accept Mr Costello’s assessment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is absolutely critical that we maintain a secure border protection policy and that is why it is ­absolutely critical that people who seek to come to Australia through the services of people-smugglers are not able to settle in Australia,’’ Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is why the boats have stopped for over 600 days now ... there have been no people-smuggling expeditions and it’s important that it stays that way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are resolute on this issue. As you know, the Labor Party is hopelessly divided on it.” Health Minister Sussan Ley also rejected the torture claim, saying she was confident the mental and physical health of <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru was being “carefully managed by the Australian government”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten, who supports the Coalition’s policy of not allowing <b>asylum</b>-seekers who come by <b>boat</b> to settle in Australia, said Mr ­Costello “has a point” about the “cost and the pain and the suffering of indefinite detention”.“The best answer is to defeat the people-smugglers and make sure that the people in our care, ­directly or indirectly, get proper resettlement,” the Opposition Leader said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gtortu : Torture | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160522ec5n00037</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020160521ec5m0003g" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>S</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shocking exposé of <b>refugee</b> camps</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review by CRAIG MATHIESON   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>426 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ENTERTAINMENT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CHASING <b>ASYLUM</b></p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RATING: 4/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MA, 96 minutes, out Thursday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Director: Eva Orner</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stars: Nicole Judge, Mark Isaacs, Martin Appleby</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy of successive Australian governments to uphold the mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> at camps on the remote Papua New Guinea island of Manus and the tiny Pacific Island state of Nauru has long divided this country. But while the headlines are numerous, the context is unclear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Due to an official cloak of secrecy and obfuscation, Manus and Nauru have been oft-cited but rarely seen. That ends with Chasing <b>Asylum</b>, a detailed and shocking examination of the nightmarish quagmire and official disdain that underpins the two facilities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Directed by the Australian filmmaker Eva Orner, who previously produced Alex Gibney's Academy Award-winning 2007 documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, this film provides stinging testimony and shocking observations from detainees and former staff members. It adds up to a compelling dismissal of the previously comforting lack of clarity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mixing secretly shot footage taken inside the grim, militarised encampments and whistle-blower interviews, the documentary emphasises the human cost of a deterrence policy. To dissuade <b>asylum</b> seekers, despite the act being a right guaranteed by the United Nations <b>Refugee</b> Convention, both adults and children are detained indefinitely under punishing conditions. It works, the narrative admits, but the price is ghastly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stopping the boats means destroying hope, health and a basic sense of human identity. "On Nauru I was seeing self-harm daily," says Nicole Judge, one of several completely unprepared social workers sent to Manus with little training. The facilities are often inadequate, the security apparatus is confrontational, medical care is dangerously inadequate and uninvestigated claims of sexual abuse are widespread.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You'd see kids banging their heads on the walls," notes another former staff member, anonymously. Sexualised behaviour in children as young as five was witnessed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Orner reveals the physical environment and then the psychological: despite anti-depressant regimens, detainees have suicidal thoughts. "Kill us," reads graffiti above a bank of telephones, and the film calmly accumulates damning observations, whether it's surreptitious footage of guards joking about shooting detainees prior to a riot or the look of guilt on the faces of those who are meant to assist in an environment where assistance was contravened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The filmmakers assemble these sometimes fragmentary pieces into a cohesive whole, reaching despairing lows. If a documentary's purpose is to reveal the truth, then this is a tragic success.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020160521ec5m0003g</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SAGE000020160521ec5m00017" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Extra - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees are our past and future</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM is the founder and chief executive of the <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>864 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who exactly was Peter Dutton referring to with his insults asks Kon Karapanagiotidis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We all have a story to tell. Australia has one that's 60,000 years old. We are a nation of <b>boat</b> people on Aboriginal land. We are a country built on immigration by migrants, refugees and First Peoples and most of us are damn proud of this, even if Immigration Minister Peter Dutton isn't. I know I'm proud of where I come from.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My own story begins with my grandmother. When I think of her, I first think of her calloused hands. They carried a lifetime of struggle and grief and were heavy with sacrifice. But they were strong and resilient. My grandma survived as a <b>refugee</b>, fleeing both the Pontian genocide and Nazi occupation during World War II. Six children rose from her love. My father Leo was one of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My dad had to leave school aged nine, my mum 12. My father's dream of being a lawyer or doctor had to be sacrificed to the fields for the future of his three sisters. My "uneducated" parents would come to Australia without a word of English and go on to raise two children, who between them would hold eight university degrees, an Order of Australia Medal and receive acclaim and recognition in their legal professions and human rights work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My parents worked on farms and in factories until their bodies could take it no more. They worked hard and sacrificed for more than 40 years so that their children could dream of something better. My parents had something no formal education could teach you. Resilience, love of community, principles, sacrifice, entrepreneurship, selflessness and courage. That's in my DNA, and it's in the blood of every single migrant and <b>refugee</b> who sets foot on this land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In speaking of refugees being out to steal our jobs, languishing on welfare, illiterate and innumerate, Mr Dutton insults us all. In the 15 years since I founded the <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre, I have been continually in awe of the spirit, ingenuity and entrepreneurship of refugees. They don't want welfare. They just want safety and the opportunity to give back and create a better life for their families, like our parents did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I read Mr Dutton's repugnant words, I wondered exactly who he was speaking of? The refugees I meet at the ASRC are not some racist's caricature. They are the doctor I know who speaks nine languages, and the young man who is studying a double degree in law and business after arriving by <b>boat</b> as an unaccompanied child without a word of English. They are everyday mums and dads willing to do anything, often the jobs no Australians will touch, just to put food and dignity on the table for their families. They are my heroes, my role models and this nation's future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton was tasked with championing my parent's legacy and the future of the refugees I work with at the ASRC. Instead, he sold them out. In fact he sold us all out; your parents or grandparents and all their sacrifices for a few cheap, nasty votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This from a minister whose government for two years denied 24,500 <b>asylum</b> seekers the right to work (including volunteer work). A Turnbull Government that will spend around $500,000 to dismantle the hope of just one <b>refugee</b> on Manus (as many as 1.2 billion taxpayers' dollars are spent on offshore mandatory detention a year), while our Innovation Hub at the ASRC would place that same person into work - paying taxes, integrating and thriving - for just $500.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I could quote a long list of exceptional refugees from the Governor of South Australia, His Excellency Hieu Van Le AO, to world-leading surgeons such as Dr Munjed Al Muderis who make it possible for our amputee diggers to walk again. But refugees shouldn't have to be exceptional to get our protection. No one expects that of you in return for your freedom and safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can build the Snowy Mountain Scheme, represent Australia at cricket or lead the state of Queensland, but Mr Dutton is telling us we don't belong; we're a burden and blight on a country that we love so much.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truth though is that the blight is the racist fearmongering of the Turnbull Government, of Mr Dutton using a narrative that belongs to the days of White Australia policy or a Reclaim Australia placard. A man who doesn't understand the contribution and value of refugees and migrants isn't fit to be the Immigration Minister and I call on him today to immediately stand down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Imagine if we saw the opportunity refugees offer our country and saw their legacy instead of some imaginary crisis. Imagine if we saw the potential rather than bought the lie of burden and threat. Imagine if we unleashed our moral indignation, instead of being held hostage by predatory politicians.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SAGE000020160521ec5m00017</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160520ec5l0001q" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ghost of Abbott spooking Turnbull campaign</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1387 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ghost of Abbott spooking Turnbull campaign</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continues Page 2</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'There are reports of Liberal branch members quitting in protest. '</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">H umility is the first step towards redemption, and as a religious man, no one knows this better than Tony Abbott . He began his election campaign in the political equivalent of sackcloth and ashes - standing in the rain, on Manly wharf, handing out leaflets to soggy commuters. One nasty passerby called him a "homophobic dinosaur" and worse. The man filmed the exchange on his mobile phone and later supplied it to the Daily Mail, a delightful modern update on a medieval pillorying. Abbott is seen in the short video greeting his detractor and responding cheerily to the slur. He looks quite enlivened by it. For the former PM, being publicly insulted by lefties is like putting on a favourite Bob Dylan record - it reminds him of his student days. Abbott just keeps popping up. The Daily Telegraph ran a story about him helping a stranded motorist push his car to safety after breaking down on the Wakehurst Parkway. He got mobbed at the footy. Herald journo and republican Peter Fitzsimons tweeted a photo of himself hanging out with his old footy coach at a cafe in Abbott's electorate. The former prime minister did a campaign event in Queensland with one of his staunchest internal supporters, the right-wing MP George Christensen, in which he referred to the "Abbott-Turnbull government". He made it sound like a happy job-share arrangement. And if Abbott has refrained from publicly criticising Turnbull, it's only because he doesn't need to - his former chief of staff Peta Credlin is performing that role for him in her position as a Sky News commentator, complete with sly quips about "Mr Harbourside Mansion" - a moniker that could almost have been lifted from an internal Liberal Party focus group. And now, as if by design, the campaign has moved squarely onto the issue that has always been Abbott's safe and happy place - boats. Whether intentionally or not, Abbott is haunting this election campaign as effectively as Kevin Rudd haunted Julia Gillard in 2010 and onwards. He is just being smarter about it - more stealthy, more patient, more strategic, more arm's-length. And Turnbull is looking spooked. How else to explain this week's detour into insulting refugees, while dressing the whole frolic up as perfectly valid concerns over the fiscal sustainability of Australia's humanitarian intake? The back and forth over the resource-sponging capabilities of the world's most vulnerable was a classic of passive-aggressive politicking: "Of course refugees make a wonderful contribution to this country. It's just, you know, they're expensive and lazy. But we don't begrudge them a thing!" It's your political leaders playing nasty mother-in-law, and it's straight out of the Abbott playbook. Many of Turnbull's supporters are beginning to worry he is in danger of allowing his former leadership opponent to define his own prime ministership. This is the man who came to power offering himself as the alternative, the anti-Abbott. Late last year when Abbott wrote an opinion piece calling for a reformation in Islam, Turnbull responded by saying we needed to be careful not to tag all Muslims with the crimes of a few. It was seen as a rebuke and a call for reason in a debate too often marred by intemperance. But now we're in an election campaign. Now, Turnbull knows</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's legacy From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">that the right wing of the party, which is concerned by his stance on social issues, disappointed by his perceived timidity on economic reform, and enraged by what it says are his retrospective changes to superannuation, is restive and reckless. There are reports of Liberal branch members quitting in protest. There is concern about a fragmentation of the traditional Coalition vote on its conservative flank, the people with whom Turnbull is least simpatico. For the moment there is no clear right- wing equivalent to the Greens, where disillusioned Labor voters can go. But there are small groups making incursions - like the Australian Liberty Alliance and, for those of an anti-tax, libertarian bent, the Liberal Democrats. These parties are unlikely to affect the lower house, but they could inspire conservatives to use their upper house vote as a protest against the government, leading to a difficult Senate for Turnbull upon election. Many on the outer edges of the right look to Europe, where nationalist parties are picking up large chunks of the popular vote, and believe that all Australia needs is a charismatic leader to galvanise the same</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">constituency - a Pauline Hanson for the 21st century. This is the context in which Peter Dutton's scaremongering over refugees makes sense. We don't actually need the Europeans to teach us the art of using refugees as a political weapon, and exploiting voters' fears about "being overrun". We have a fine tradition of it ourselves. So fine that the leader of the right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, last year called for Britain to adopt Australian policies to reduce the number of unskilled workers coming in from Europe. Nonetheless the European experience sure helps - it's so visually arresting - all those hordes crossing borders. National armies pushing them back. <b>Boat</b> after <b>boat</b> breaching the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Why not borrow a smidge of that stuff to make a point about <b>asylum</b> seekers - only if there's too many of them, of course - overloading our job queues/dole queues/ Medicare system? If the Prime Minister wanted to, he could have used the debate over immigration to embroider his mantra about jobs and growth, because immigration has been a great engine for both those things. The fact that he didn't has many thinking he's looking over his shoulder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">that the right wing of the party, which is concerned by his stance on social issues, disappointed by his perceived timidity on economic reform, and enraged by what it says are his retrospective changes to superannuation, is restive and reckless. There are reports of Liberal branch members quitting in protest. There is concern about a fragmentation of the traditional Coalition vote on its conservative flank, the people with whom Turnbull is least simpatico. For the moment there is no clear right- wing equivalent to the Greens, where disillusioned Labor voters can go. But there are small groups making incursions - like the Australian Liberty Alliance and, for those of an anti-tax, libertarian bent, the Liberal Democrats. These parties are unlikely to affect the lower house, but they could inspire conservatives to use their upper house vote as a protest against the government, leading to a difficult Senate for Turnbull upon election. Many on the outer edges of the right look to Europe, where nationalist parties are picking up large chunks of the popular vote, and believe that all Australia needs is a charismatic leader to galvanise the same</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">constituency - a Pauline Hanson for the 21st century. This is the context in which Peter Dutton's scaremongering over refugees makes sense. We don't actually need the Europeans to teach us the art of using refugees as a political weapon, and exploiting voters' fears about "being overrun". We have a fine tradition of it ourselves. So fine that the leader of the right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, last year called for Britain to adopt Australian policies to reduce the number of unskilled workers coming in from Europe. Nonetheless the European experience sure helps - it's so visually arresting - all those hordes crossing borders. National armies pushing them back. <b>Boat</b> after <b>boat</b> breaching the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Why not borrow a smidge of that stuff to make a point about <b>asylum</b> seekers - only if there's too many of them, of course - overloading our job queues/dole queues/ Medicare system? If the Prime Minister wanted to, he could have used the debate over immigration to embroider his mantra about jobs and growth, because immigration has been a great engine for both those things. The fact that he didn't has many thinking he's looking over his shoulder.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The facts are papered over as deluded progressives lurch into irrelevance</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The progressive side of politics is wedging itself on cultural issues, doomed like Groundhog Day to repeat the mistakes of the 2001 Tampa crisis election after election. And the progressive media seems determined never to learn and to make the same misjudgments election after election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was like an old hustler’s trick this week. Greens leader Richard Di Natale set the wedge trap in an address to the <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> in Sydney on Tuesday night, saying Australia should be taking 50,000 refugees a year. Never mind the Greens also think the country is struggling to sustain its present population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Dutton appeared on Sky News’ Paul Murray Live that night and said the obvious. The majority of recent refugees were Afghans without jobs and often illiterate, even in their own language. Cue the instant outrage and by Wednesday afternoon The Sydney Morning Herald’s political editor Mark Kenny was already forecasting online that this “Coalition backfire” could cost Malcolm Turnbull dearly. So, after the biggest public policy failure in the nation’s history — Kevin Rudd ’s deliberate 2008 decision to unwind the ­Pacific Solution, the arrival of 50,000 people by <b>boat</b> and the drowning of 1200 at sea — the party that reversed the crisis for a second time in a decade and a half is in grave danger of drowning in the moral posturing of its media critics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Peter Dutton’s deliberately incendiary claim that refugees are often innumerate and illiterate … reeks of Tampa-like exaggerations,” Kenny wrote. <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> was alight. Crikey ­political editor Bernard Keane tweeted at lunchtime on Wed­nesday: “See, it’s not the fault of refugees themselves that they’re vile, parasitic scum that prey upon our children.” Dutton’s office released figures costing the Greens’ new policy. Rachel Baxendale late Wed­nesday morning in The Australian quoted the four-year cost of the Greens’ 50,000 a year intake at $7 billion over four years and Labor’s 27,000 at $2.3bn over the same ­period. The government plans to stick with the existing intake of 13,750, rising to 18,750 in 2018-19 with a one-off intake from Syria of 12,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Incredibly, one of the main factual mistakes made by Dutton and singled out by Sarah Martin and Judith Sloan in The Australian on Thursday morning was the line about refugees taking Australian jobs. Several government and ­private research papers proved only 24 per cent got jobs and most remained on welfare. That will be little comfort to Labor in the ­marginal seats of our major cities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Latham ran hard with the facts on the costs of <b>asylum</b>-­seekers on The Bolt Report on Sky News on Wednesday night and, like David Crowe in his Wednesday night election blog on The Oz website, criticised Labor for mixing up refugees and migrants. It was no good Labor leader Bill Shorten citing the successes of Frank Lowy , Dick Pratt and Victor Chang. They were migrants rather than refugees. Latham also ­produced demographic research showing almost no refugees live in high Greens voting electorates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the costs were really irrelevant to <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> , Guardian Australia and many on the ABC. That is until Leigh Sales on ABC 7.30 demolished Labor’s spokesman Richard Marles on his party’s record in government on this issue. That was some redress after an egregious performance, on The Drum on ABC 24, by Guardian Australia assistant news editor Bridie Jabour, who really could not bring herself to understand ­Dutton’s facts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet again Paul Murray on PMLive nailed it best when he outed Shorten for a whole day of confected outrage during which he never once mentioned Labor was planning to double the government’s annual <b>refugee</b> intake. As The Australian editorialised on Thursday, Labor was trying to talk out of both sides of its mouth: to its Greens-leaning left and its blue-collar outer suburban base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One fact that seemed overlooked in most places, except by the Prime Minister in Darwin: Australia is already, with Canada, the most generous nation per ­capita in sheltering <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So halfway through week two of the campaign, the Greens, who destroyed the government of Julia Gillard, had already completely wedged Labor, which can never be as soft on this issue as Di Natale. By Thursday morning Simon Benson in The Daily Telegraph reported 30 Labor candidates had by now dissented from party policy on <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Di Natale had set it all up in week one with talk about his list of demands for supporting Shorten in the event of a minority government on July 2. His appearance on Sky News’ Australian Agenda with Peter van Onselen and Paul Kelly on Sunday morning set up week two.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the Greens are laying other traps for Labor with their support for the Victorian Labor government’s Safe Schools program and their commitments on Sunday penalty rates. Latham on Jones & Co on Sky News two weeks in a row took aim at Premier Daniel Andrews for Victorian Labor’s support of a program he says is designed to increase gender fluidity. Latham sees Labor being trapped in a world in which the Left rejects the notion of observable truths, but ordinary voters see Safe Schools as an extreme attempt to reconstruct gender.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten tried all week to portray Safe Schools as a simple anti-bullying program, but it seems most unlikely that if parents actually start reading material linked to the Victorian version of Safe Schools, rather than the version watered down by federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham in March, there will be any support for Labor’s position. Especially in outer suburban electorates where Labor voters know the difference between boys and girls and don’t really want their 11-year-olds engaging in transgender role play.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ABC radio’s flagship PM program nailed the Greens wedge on Labor over penalty rates on Wednesday night. “I simply say to the Labor Party this: if you are so committed to penalty rates, protect them in law … if you care about penalty rates, and the Greens do, then join us and protect them in law,” Di Natale said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Poor Shorten had little option but to commit to abide by the ­decision of the <span class="companylink">Fair Work Commission</span> set up by the previous Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The old Tony Abbott show made some memorable appear­ances this week. Abbott on Chris Kenny’s Viewpoint on Sky News Sunday night pledged himself unequivocally to the Turnbull government, promised to serve a full term and virtually volunteered for a ministry after the poll. He defended Peta Credlin’s role as a ­television commentator and the following day she told Andrew Bolt she would not criticise Niki Savva over the bestselling book, The Road to Ruin, about the pair’s downfall. Credlin’s appearances throughout the week were sure- footed and incisive.Most silly media piece of the week for my money was Kate Ellis last Sunday on the ABC’s Insiders pledging a $40 million Labor commitment towards swimming lessons to make sure all Australian children are safe on the water. Used to be the role of local councils, didn’t it?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Humility is the first step towards redemption, and as a religious man, no one knows this better than Tony Abbott .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He began his election campaign in the political equivalent of sackcloth and ashes - standing in the rain, on Manly wharf, handing out leaflets to soggy commuters.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One nasty passerby called him a "homophobic dinosaur", and worse. The man filmed the exchange on his mobile phone and later supplied it to the Daily Mail, a delightful modern update on a medieval pillorying. Abbott is seen in the short video, greeting his detractor and responding cheerily to the slur. He looks quite enlivened by it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the former PM, being publicly insulted by lefties is like putting on a favourite Bob Dylan record - it reminds him of his student days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott just keeps popping up. The Daily Telegraph ran a story about him helping a stranded motorist push his car to safety after breaking down on the Wakehurst Parkway. He got mobbed at the footy. Herald journo and republican Peter FitzSimons tweeted a photo of himself hanging out with his old footy coach at a cafe in Abbott's electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former prime minister did a campaign event in Queensland with one of his staunchest internal supporters, the right-wing MP George Christensen, in which he referred to the "Abbott-Turnbull government". He made it sound like a happy job-share arrangement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And while Abbott has refrained from publicly criticising Turnbull, that's because he doesn't need to - his former chief of staff, Peta Credlin, is making that case for him, in her role as a Sky News commentator, complete with sly quips about "Mr Harbourside Mansion" - a moniker that could almost have been lifted from an internal Liberal Party focus group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And now, as if by design, the campaign has moved onto the issue that has always been Abbott's safe and happy place - boats. Whether intentionally or not, Abbott is haunting this election campaign as effectively as Kevin Rudd haunted Julia Gillard in 2010 and onwards. He is just being smarter about it - more stealthy, more patient, more strategic, less ostentatious, more arm's-length.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Turnbull is looking spooked. How else to explain this week's detour into insulting refugees, while dressing the whole frolic up as perfectly valid concerns over the fiscal sustainability of Australia's humanitarian intake?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The back and forth over the resource-sponging capabilities of the world's most vulnerable was a classic case of passive-aggressive politicking: "Of course refugees make a wonderful contribution to this country. It's just, you know, they're expensive and lazy. But we don't begrudge them a thing! I'm just pointing out, you know, that they do cost money."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's your political leaders playing nasty mother-in-law, and it's straight out of the Abbott playbook.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of Turnbull's supporters are beginning to worry he is in danger of allowing his former leadership opponent to define his own prime ministership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the man who came to power offering himself as the alternative, the anti-Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Late last year when Abbott wrote an opinion piece calling for a reformation in Islam, Turnbull responded by saying we needed to be careful not to tag all Muslims with the crimes of a few. It was seen as a rebuke and a call for reason in a debate that is too often marred by intemperance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But now we're in an election campaign. Now, Turnbull knows that the right wing of the party, which is concerned by his stance on social issues, disappointed by his perceived timidity on economic reform, and enraged by what it says are his retrospective changes to superannuation, is restive and reckless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are reports of Liberal branch members quitting in protest. There is concern about a fragmentation of the traditional Coalition vote on its conservative flank, the people with whom Turnbull is least simpatico.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the moment there is no clear right-wing equivalent to the Greens, where disillusioned Labor voters can go. But there are small groups making incursions - like the Australian Liberty Alliance and, for those of an anti-tax, libertarian bent, the Liberal Democrats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These parties are unlikely to affect the lower house, but they could inspire conservatives to use their upper house vote as a protest against the government, leading to a difficult Senate for Turnbull upon election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many on the outer edges of the right look to Europe, where nationalist parties are picking up large chunks of the popular vote, and believe that all Australia needs is a charismatic leader to galvanise the same constituency - a Pauline Hanson for the 21st century.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the context in which Peter Dutton's scaremongering over refugees makes sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We don't actually need the Europeans to teach us the art of using refugees as a political weapon and exploiting voters' fears about "being overrun".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have a fine tradition of it ourselves. So fine that the leader of the right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, last year called for Britain to adopt Australian policies to reduce the number of unskilled workers coming in from Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We don't need it, but the European experience sure helps - it's so visually arresting - all those hordes crossing borders. National armies pushing them back. <b>Boat</b> after <b>boat</b> breaching the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Why not borrow a smidge of that stuff to make a point about <b>asylum</b> seekers - only if there's too many of them, of course - overloading our job queues/dole queues/Medicare system?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Prime Minister wanted to, he could have used the debate over immigration to embroider his mantra about jobs and growth, because immigration has been a great engine for both those things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact that he didn't has many thinking he's looking over his shoulder.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The election campaign is a quarter of the way through and week two on the hustings saw Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten get personal. Andrew Tillett and Phoebe Wearne were on the road with the leaders. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday VERDICT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Monday</p>
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Malcolm Turnbull made his way to WA, where the Liberals are fighting to hold on to at least four seats thanks to the unpopularity of the Barnett Government, unhappiness over the GST carve-up and slowing economy. Despite the long trip west, the Prime Minister only had <span class="companylink">one campaign</span> event, visiting the shipyards at Henderson. The yard is in the seat of Fremantle but the Liberal candidate Sherry Sufi was nowhere to be seen after revelations he had embellished his CV and he had expressed controversial views on gay marriage, white settlement and constitutional indigenous recognition. Shadow infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese was in Perth pledging $80 million for a bridge over Kwinana Freeway, and $2 million for planning the Outer Harbour. After dedicating his first week of campaigning to education, Bill Shorten pulled on his first high-vis vest of the election campaign at a factory in Geelong, promising $59 million for car parts makers. Tuesday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull continued his lap of the map in Darwin, but it was closer to Canberra where Assistant Treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer announced a delay to the backpacker tax after regional coalition MPs had arced up that it would deter holidaymakers from working on farms. Mr Turnbull scheduled four events in the marginal seat of Solomon, the most of the campaign to date. Amid the backdrop of a Border Force patrol <b>boat</b>, he launched a stinging attack on Labor’s divisions over <b>asylum</b> seekers. Mr Shorten hit back that Mr Turnbull was being dishonest. But it was South Australian voter Margo Carey who got her 15 minutes of fame after she almost made first base with Mr Shorten during a street walk in Adelaide. The Labor leader got more than he bargained for when he came across 49-year-old Ms Carey, who rides a gopher and wanted to talk about wheelchair access to Adelaide’s trams. Ms Carey asked for a kiss and cuddle for the cameras and Mr Shorten obliged, but the encounter turned to campaign gold when a grinning Ms Carey asked for a “proper kiss” and he leaned in to give her a kiss on the cheek but found her lips instead. Wednesday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s comments that illiterate and innumerate refugees were taking the jobs of Australians dominated campaigning. Visiting Cairns and Townsville, Mr Turnbull did not repeat Mr Dutton’s central claim but otherwise stood by his minister. Mr Shorten said Mr Dutton’s comments would have done Pauline Hanson proud but the Opposition Leader had headaches of his own with frontbencher David Feeney. Mr Shorten had to counsel Mr Feeney after he admitted he failed to declare his ownership of a $2.3 million investment property on his pecuniary interest register. Mr Feeney, who is facing a tough challenge from the Greens for his inner- Melbourne seat, also admitted negatively gearing the property, blunting Labor’s policy to rein in the tax break. Thursday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A reminder the argy-bargy of politics isn’t everything. Mr Shorten made the biggest spending announcement of the campaign yet, promising to unfreeze Medicare rebates at a cost of $2.4 billion. But the pledge was overshadowed after Mr Shorten found himself at the scene of a car accident. He was due to do a street walk in the Hunter Valley city of Maitland in the afternoon but the Labor campaign came to a halt when the convoy Mr Shorten was travelling in narrowly avoided a head-on car crash. The Labor motorcade had begun to pull over at Testers Hollow for a planned roadside campaign announcement when a car attempted to overtake the slowing vehicles, but instead it and an oncoming car collided. Mr Shorten spent about 30 minutes consoling a mother and her two-year-old son in his car after the pair were involved in the crash, and later gave them a lift home. Mr Turnbull spent the day in western Sydney, announcing $50 million for a local road and visiting a factory. Friday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the best efforts of strategists, things happen in election campaigns that catch everyone off guard. Such was the case when the <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> raided the office of deputy Labor Senate leader Stephen Conroy and the home of an ALP staffer over leaked <span class="companylink">National Broadband Network</span> documents on the progress of the NBN rollout while Mr Turnbull was communications minister. Labor figures seethed the raids coincided with the campaign and demanded to know whether any ministers had any involvement in the investigation. Mr Turnbull said he only learnt of the probe late on Thursday and would not be commenting further while police investigated. AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin denied there had been any political influence over the conduct of the investigation. VERDICT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton’s strident attack on refugees and Mr Feeney’s forgetfulness have been an unedifying reminder of what voters dislike about politics. Labor continues to set the pace on rolling out policy and promises, but these announcements are being overshadowed by the continuing focus on border security, which coalition strategists sees as favourable turf for Mr Turnbull, even if Mr Dutton’s effort was over the top. The Federal police intervention is a wildcard. While the headline “Cops raid Labor” seems damaging to the Opposition, when you look at the substance of the leak being investigated, it raises questions over how Mr Turnbull managed the roll-out of the NBN. The Government won the first part of the week but by the end Labor had drawn level.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Rocking the <b>boat</b> an issue in port</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sophie Morris </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>679 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The retiring Labor member for the seat of Fremantle Melissa Parke made her name by going against party policy — particularly on the sensitive issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor’s new candidate for the seat, Josh Wilson, has made plain he will not rock the <b>boat</b>, at least during this campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson, 43, has for 12 years worked for Federal Labor MPs in Fremantle — Ms Parke and before her Carmen Lawrence, both of who criticised their party’s approach to refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As deputy mayor of Fremantle, Mr Wilson has in recent months supported motions calling for an end to offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But since being picked as Labor’s candidate last week, when the party’s national executive disendorsed union organiser Chris Brown over teenage convictions, Mr Wilson has observed party discipline.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I support Labor’s policy, which isn’t to move away from offshore processing, but I’m entirely supportive of the very strong criticism of the terrible shortcomings of the operation of those centres,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson sees a role for <b>boat</b> turn-backs but only in “extraordinary or special circumstances”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The one that would be clearest to me would be if you encounter a vessel that clearly isn’t seaworthy, so by allowing it to continue there’s a serious likelihood of those people’s lives being put at risk,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberals dropped the bombshell yesterday that Sherry Sufi — a long-time Liberal staffer — would no longer stand in the seat after it was revealed he had been recorded mocking State Parliament’s Speaker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the Liberals in disarray, Mr Wilson’s main rival for the seat may be Greens candidate Kate Davis, who will draw a distinction between their approaches to <b>refugee</b> policy and argue the Greens are promising more action on climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Davis, a solicitor for Tenancy WA, praised Ms Parke for speaking out on human rights, but said Labor had not heeded her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My concerns are not with Josh but with the disappointing position the Labor Party has taken and Josh has made it clear from day one of his candidacy that he will be bound by Labor policies,” the 34-year-old said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So many people in Fremantle don’t want to see refugees detained in those hellholes of Manus and Nauru.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February, Dr Lawrence supported Mr Wilson’s candidacy, arguing the seat could fall to the Greens if Labor chose a union organiser. The Greens enjoy strong support around the coastal cafe strip of Fremantle, less so in the electorate’s more working-class suburbs, reaching to Henderson in the south and Jandakot in the east.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The recent redistribution, hiving off some Liberal-leaning suburbs to the neighbouring seat of Tangney, has notionally increased Labor’s margin from 4.8 per cent to 5.4 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2013, the Greens secured less than 12 per cent of the primary vote, so Ms Davis knows her campaign is a long shot but it is the party’s best hope for a Lower House seat in WA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson cites transport infrastructure as one of the seat’s top issues, with Labor backing the State party’s Metronet rail plan and pledging $80 million for a bridge over the Kwinana Freeway to ease congestion at Cockburn Central.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His other campaign themes include Labor’s commitment to increased schools funding and its opposition to the Perth Freight Link, in favour of investment in an outer harbour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens also oppose the freight link and want the Beeliar Wetlands protected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fremantle has been held by Labor since the 1930s, but Mr Wilson said he was not a shoo-in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He knows politics can be unpredictable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having lost the preselection battle to Mr Brown, he was about to accept a job at <span class="companylink">Curtin University</span> when he got a call from Labor headquarters asking if he still wanted to be the candidate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Candidates will take part in a debate at Notre Dame University on June 21.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>STORM CLOUDS GATHERING</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Michael   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1543 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some Manus islanders are growing resentful now the more than 900 <b>asylum</b> seekers are no longer behind barbed wire. Meanwhile the future for the former detainees continues to be bleak, writes Peter Michael</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT next for Manus?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s the billion-dollar question as costs blowout and 900 male <b>asylum</b> seekers, many of whom have been processed and found to be genuine refugees, wait in limbo ahead of the ordered shutdown of the offshore regional processing centre in Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Home to 50,000 islanders, this remote island outpost in the Pacific is an idyllic tropical, coral-fringed paradise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But dark storm clouds are brewing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals fear a catastrophic impact of the loss of the economic “goldmine” under the looming shutdown, refugees are protesting about life in their “Manus Hell” and conflict between the two groups is boiling over into bloodshed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus, in particular the tiny main town of Lorengau, is on a knife’s edge. Hundreds of villagers, including those who travel for hours by <b>boat</b> from outer islands, come to buy and sell smoked fish, mud crabs, live turtle and the mildly narcotic betel nut at the traditional market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Usually a relaxed, warm and impossibly polite people, the Manusians have become visibly wary of “foreigners” to the point of hostility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under-relaxed security in the past three weeks at the now “open” facility at the Lombrum Navy base and a smaller transit centre in town, which now houses 178 men, the former detainees have new freedom to wander the town, go fishing, to the beach and to the market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a special investigation this week, The Courier-Mail, which travelled to Manus, uncovered a cigarettes-for-cash, black market trade between refugees and locals on Manus, where the former detainees were exchanging cigarettes, given to them free under an Australian taxpayer-funded reward program, for $10 a packet, and using the cash to allegedly buy smartphones, alcohol, marijuana and sex.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the refugees observed and spoken to had bought $400 mobile phones and new clothes including designer label rip-offs, as well as military-style camouflage apparel and backpacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lots of them are big, physically fit men, bodies honed by three years of gym sessions to combat the boredom inside detention and they mostly walk in groups of two or three to prevent random attack on the streets by increasingly hostile locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PNG officials say there is a small element of extremist Muslim radicals among the 900 men, mostly from war-torn Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia. But they declined to detail any exact figure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Most are economic migrants seeking a better life,” says a highly placed source. Latest figures from PNG police on Manus show more than 40 detainees have been arrested and charged over the past three years with a variety of offences, including violent assault, rape, theft, wilful damage and insulting behaviour. But none have faced trial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PNG officials also say a handful of the irregular maritime arrivals may have become radicalised in three years inside the state-of-the-art $600 million facility ringed by 5m-high razor wire and 24-hour security patrols, operated by Broad Spectrum and Wilsons Security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We feel sorry for them,” the source says. “Many are poor people from war-torn countries who tried to go to Australia by <b>boat</b> to make money and start a new life. They are not terrorists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now they are still in limbo, their fate is unclear. They’ve all got frustrations.” Some among the former detainees are now a week into daily rallies where they march between compounds, holding banners and chanting slogans such as “We Want Freedom” and “We Want Justice”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Shut down Manus Hell. Let hostages in,’’ one banner reads.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Where is sanctity of law? Stop playing games. Every death in PNG and Nauru is blood on your hands,’’ reads another.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only options available to them are to settle in PNG or return home, but The Courier-Mail understands just one in four may opt to fly back to their countries of origin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Authorities say problems are being created by the former detainees, who are now armed with smartphones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They use them to film their protests while they try to incite security guards to react violently inside the centre,’’ one source says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus Island tribal leaders are indifferent to the plight of the tobacco and cash-seeking former detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Koporou clan chief and prominent local businessman Mochon Peter describes them as “ungrateful illegals” who are “treated like kings”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Send them back,’’ the Lombrum landowners committee chairman says. “No option. Send them back to their own country. We don’t want them.” Yet Peter, who owns Juromo wholesale and retail stores on Manus, says the “massive boatloads of cash” spent by the Australian Government on the Manus centre, has been an economic windfall for his isolated island community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It has been a blessing for Manus,’’ he says. “It has brought luck and development for Manus.” Many locals are part of the 2000-odd support staff at the site and there are now sealed roads, a new market, a hospital project, an airport upgrade and plans to build a police station.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The closure of the detention centre, ordered by the PNG Supreme Court, has many concerned about the economic future of the tiny community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now everyone is in the dark about the future,” Peter says. “Many people will lose their jobs and feel much shame.” And he says resentment towards the now freed detainees is building. “If they walk the streets at night, PNG people will chop them up with a bush knife. It’s not safe.” David William, who now owns his own welding business, worked for nearly two years at the detention centre as a G4S security intelligence officer. He expects the island economy to collapse when the facility shuts down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It has been a goldmine,’’ William says. “It has been our daily bread, lots have new cars and bank loans, but now many will be unemployed.” He predicts hard times and potential violence in the weeks ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus is not unfamiliar with conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In World War II, it was a strategic battleground and staging point occupied by both American and Japanese forces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rusted relics of warships, planes and landing craft can be seen in the jungles, on the shoreline and under the opalescent waters of the province, two degrees south of the equator, in the Bismarck Sea, northeast of the PNG coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now it is again a major battleground in a political tit-for-tat ahead of the July 2 Australian federal election, with no exit plan in sight for the majority of the 900 former detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It costs $1.5 million a day to operate the Manus Island centre, where the total bill has blown out to $985 million since it reopened in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has tried to insist the federal election will be fought and won on <b>boat</b> arrivals, notwithstanding the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers attempting to get to Australia by <b>boat</b> has dried to barely a trickle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I want to get people out. I want the detention centre not to be in use, because I don’t want boats to recommence,’’ he told radio 2GB earlier this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He suggested there may be a third country option to take some of the former Manus detainees. But Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rejected outright a New Zealand offer to take 150 refugees, dismissing it as an alleged “back door route” into Australia. Secret negotiations with Cambodia have also been fruitless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Turnbull Government, deep in election mode, stalls on any decision on the fate of the Manus men, Iranian <b>refugee</b> Lockman Sawari, 20, remains stateless and lost in no man’s land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five days ago the desperate young man returned to Lorengau after running away to a remote outer island, living on fresh fish and sago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But after three weeks he was unable to cope with the isolation and relentless onslaught of malaria-ridden mosquitoes in the jungle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Nowhere in PNG is safe. This place is a hellhole,’’ he says sadly. He says his parents spent their life savings to pay people smugglers to take their then 17-year-old son to Australia to start a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But it was a big mistake. It all got f---ed up,’’ Sawari, who is battling suicidal thoughts, says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I go drinking, have marijuana, take sleeping tablets to make myself feel normal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Sometimes I go crazy and want to go and buy a gallon of petrol and set myself on fire to kill myself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are Muslim but we’re not all ISIS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Why does Australia spend so much money to make us crazy?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What is their game?”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FAST FACTS 972 Number of <b>asylum</b> seekers transferred from Australia to PNG 868 Number currently still residing in the Manus Regional Processing Centre 541 Number of those transferred to PNG found to be refugees 430 Number of those yet to have their <b>refugee</b> status determined (374 of these reside in the MRPC) TOP 10 countries of origin: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, stateless.Source: Department of Immigration and Border Protection statistics correct as at May 19, 2016</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Paradise island is bracing for hell</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Michael MANUS ISLAND   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>600 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What next for Manus? It is the billion- dollar question ahead of the ordered shutdown of the offshore <b>asylum</b>-seeker processing centre in Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Home to 50,000 islanders, this remote Pacific outpost is an idyllic, coral-fringed paradise. But dark storms clouds are brewing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals fear a catastrophic impact of the loss of the economic “goldmine”, while conflict with the 900 male <b>asylum</b> seekers now waiting in limbo is boiling over.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus, in particular the tiny main town of Lorengau, is on a knife’s edge. Hundreds of villagers, including those who travel for hours by <b>boat</b> from outer islands, come to buy and sell smoked fish, mud crabs, live turtle and the mildly narcotic betel nut at the market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Usually a relaxed, warm and impossibly polite people, the Manusians have become visibly wary of “foreigners” to the point of hostility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under relaxed security over the past three weeks, detainees now have freedom to wander town or go fishing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph earlier this week uncovered a thriving cigarettes-for-cash black market trade between the refugees and locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The detainees are in no man’s land as the Australian government stalls on any decision on their future in the lead-up to the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Manus Island tribal leaders think they should all just be sent home. Koporou clan chief and prominent businessman Mochon Peter said they were “ungrateful illegals” who are “treated like kings”. “Send them back,’’ he said. “No option. Send them back to their own country. We don’t want them. They are cheating us.’’ But Mr Peter said the “massive boatloads of cash” from Australia had been an economic windfall for his isolated island community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many locals are part of the 2000-odd support staff at the detention centre and there are new sealed roads, a new market, a hospital project, an airport upgrade and plans for a new police station.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now everyone is in the dark about the future,” Mr Peter said. “Many people will lose their jobs.” There are other problems too. “The detainees are going around with locals girls, it’s creating a lot of jealousy,” Mr Peter said. “If they walk the streets at night PNG people will chop them up with a bush knife. It’s not safe.” Mr Peter said many locals resented the “illegals” compared with the dire poverty of his own people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They are Muslims, we are Christians, the world is at war over religion and I do not think we can live peacefully,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">David William worked for nearly two years at the detention centre as a security intelligence officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He expects the island economy to collapse when the facility shuts down. “It has been a goldmine,’’ Mr William said.“It has been our daily bread, lots have new cars and bank loans but now many will be unemployed.” He predicts hard times and potential violence in the weeks ahead. Iranian Lockman Sawari, 20, has just returned to Lorengau after he ran away to live the life of a castaway on a remote outer island. However, after three weeks he was unable to cope with the isolation and the mosquitoes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Nowhere in PNG is safe. This place is a hellhole.’’His parents spent their life savings to pay people smugglers to take the then 17-year-old to Australia to start a new life. “But it was a big mistake, it all got f…ed up,’’ Sawari said. “I go drinking, have marijuana, take sleeping tablets to make myself feel normal.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>MANUS MAYHEM TAKING A TOLL ON ANGRY ISLANDERS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Michael   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>597 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>53</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT next for Manus? It’s the billion-dollar question as costs blow out and 900 male <b>asylum</b> seekers wait in limbo ahead of the ordered shutdown of the offshore regional processing centre in Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Home to 50,000 islanders, this remote outpost in the Pacific is an idyllic tropical, coral-fringed paradise.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But dark storm clouds are brewing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals fear a catastrophic impact of the loss of the economic “goldmine” under the looming shutdown, refugees are protesting life in their “Manus hell”, and conflict between the two groups is boiling over into bloodshed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus, in particular the tiny main town of Lorengau, is on a knife’s edge. Hundreds of villagers, including those who travel for hours by <b>boat</b> from outer islands, come to buy and sell smoked fish, mud crabs, live turtles and the mildly narcotic beetle nut at the traditional market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Usually a relaxed, warm and impossibly polite people, the Manusians have become visibly wary of “foreigners” to the point of hostility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under relaxed security in the past three weeks at the now “open” facility at the Lombrum navy base and a smaller transit centre in town, which now houses 178 men, detainees have new freedom to wander town, go fishing, to the beach and to market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun this week uncovered an illicit cigarettes-for-cash black market trade between refugees and locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the illegal rort, refugees were exchanging up to 40 packets of cigarettes at a time, given to them free under an Australian taxpayer-funded reward program, for $10 a packet, buying smartphones, alcohol, marijuana and sex.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the refugees had purchased $400 mobile phones and new clothes including designer-label rip-offs as well as military-style camouflage apparel and backpacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lots of them are big, physically fit men, bodies honed by three years of gym sessions to combat the boredom inside detention, and they mostly walk in groups of two or three to prevent random attack on the streets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PNG officials exclusively confirmed there is a small element of extremist Muslim radicals among the 900 men, mostly from war-torn Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Most are economic migrants seeking a better life,” a highly placed source said “But there are some who ‘could pose a threat to Australian security’.” Australian Border Force did not respond to a request for an intelligence assessment of “how many, if any, are former soldiers, wanted war criminals, mercenaries, convicted offenders, gangsters, suspected terrorists or members of any radical or outlawed religious sects?”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Latest figures from PNG police on Manus show more than 40 detainees have been arrested and charged over the past three years with a variety of offences including violent assault, rape, theft, wilful damage and insulting behaviour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">None have gone to trial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PNG officials believe that a handful of the illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals may have become radicalised in three years inside the $600m facility ringed by 5m-high razor wire and 24-hour security, run by Broad Spectrum and Wilson Security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We feel sorry for them,” the source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Many are poor people from war-torn countries who tried to go to Australia by <b>boat</b> to make money and start a new life, they are not terrorists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Most are grateful towards PNG, but lots hate Australia for what has been done to them, three years in prison has made them deeply resentful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now they are still in limbo, their fate is unclear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’ve all got frustrations.”peter.michael@news.com.au</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1020 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B002</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other migrants cost, too</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said refugees would take "Australian jobs".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A t least Immigration Minister Peter Dutton highlighted one point this week: it costs a lot of money to bring people to Australia. He restricted his remarks to refugees but there's a cost in bringing family- reunion and economic migrants to Australia, too. The difference, however, is that we have a moral duty to help the world's refugees but no moral duty to take economic migrants, who just like the idea of living and working in Australia. One of the best indicators of these costs and duties can be found in <span class="companylink">Credit Suisse</span>'s Global Wealth Databook. The bank is well placed to measure wealth: Switzerland has topped the world's national wealth table for every year of the databook's five-year history. The databook shows that Australia is a very wealthy country and with wealth more evenly distributed than in almost any other nation. In 2013, Australia's average personal wealth was second only to Switzerland's. We can and should do more to help the planet's refugees. So that's the duty side. Now for the cost. Since 2013 - in the term of this Coalition government, as it happens - little New Zealand crept up the wealth table and overtook Australia, with an average personal wealth of $US400,800 compared with Australia's $US365,000. New Zealand is now second to Switzerland and Australia third. New Zealand's population (about 4.5 million) is growing at a rate of about 1 per cent a year, whereas Australia's is closer to 2 per cent. New</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zealand had zero net immigration in 2012, though it's usually about 12,000 people a year. Australia's net immigration runs between about 170,000 and 300,000 a year - up to four times New Zealand's rate. Our birth rate is higher, too. Increased population means less wealth per person. Australia's higher population growth may improve the wealth of some people in the property game, but overall it costs everyone else. Even with very high visa fees and sponsored immigration lowering the immediate cost to the government, the longer-term cost of immigration remains high. As it happened, Dutton mentioned literacy, numeracy and Medicare - in other words, health and education. His remarks were directed at refugees but are true of all immigrants. Extra schools, hospitals, roads and the like need to be built for them. As Dutton said: "So there would be huge cost and there's no sense in sugar-coating that, that's the scenario." He was referring to the extra refugees that the Greens want to take but it's equally true of all migrants who come to Australia. Higher population also puts a strain on the environment. The cost of high population growth is borne out by the fact that, even though Australia's income per person</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">has been higher than New Zealand's in recent times, Australia has still fallen behind New Zealand for total wealth per person. Dutton also mentioned jobs. He said of refugees: "These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that." But to the extent that that's true, it's also true of all migrants. Then Dutton got a bit jumbled because he said of refugees: "For many people, they won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English ... For many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues." It's an odd image: people in dole queues taking Australian jobs. It's also odd to draw a distinction between "Australian jobs" and jobs taken up in Australia by refugees. Surely, they are all Australian jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in any event, to the extent that a job taken up by someone who arrives in Australia is one fewer job for a person already here, it's true whether the arrival is a <b>refugee</b> or another sort of migrant. All of Dutton's arguments about costs and jobs with respect to refugees apply also to migrants in general, although refugees are initially more costly to government education and health services because they often come from places where education and health are poor so there is some catching up to do. But that said, refugees generally want to make a new home and get ahead like everyone else. And Australia is the place to do it. Australia has the lowest percentage of its people owning less than $US10,000 of wealth than any other country. It would be far cheaper to integrate refugees into the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">community than imprison them indefinitely on third-world islands. We should recognise our duty to help more with the international <b>refugee</b> crisis. We should drastically reduce the number of economic migrants we accept. We should make an arrangement with Indonesia and other neighbours so that they take back any refugees who arrive in Australia through people smuggling, with no chance of them ever settling in Australia. In return, we would take as many or more people from among the refugees in those countries. And if there are no <b>boat</b> arrivals, we should concentrate on taking refugees from our region anyway. That would wreck the people- smugglers' business plan because refugees in Indonesia would know trying to reach Australia by <b>boat</b> would mean permanent disbarment. That idea would compare poorly against the better option of waiting their turn in Indonesia with some hope of being resettled. We should empty the prison camps on Manus Island and Nauru by bringing the occupants to Australia and accepting New Zealand's offer to take some of them. After all, New Zealand can afford it now that it's pipped Australia and taken second place on the world wealth table. Alas, all this is so unlikely. Too many people with money and power profit from high immigration even if the great majority loses from it. And no one lost a vote playing the fear game and kicking refugees while they are down. crispinhull.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>iwealth : Private Banking/Wealth Management | i814 : Banking | i831 : Financial Investments | ibnk : Banking/Credit | ifinal : Financial Services | iinv : Investing/Securities</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gedu : Education | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160520ec5l00003</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160520ec5l00002" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott's legacy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>407 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B002</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's legacy Continued from Page 1</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">that the right wing of the party, which is concerned by his stance on social issues, disappointed by his perceived timidity on economic reform, and enraged by what it says are his retrospective changes to superannuation, is restive and reckless. There are reports of Liberal branch members quitting in protest. There is concern about a fragmentation of the traditional Coalition vote on its conservative flank, the people with whom Turnbull is least simpatico. For the moment there is no clear right- wing equivalent to the Greens, where disillusioned Labor voters can go. But there are small groups making incursions - like the Australian Liberty Alliance and, for those of an anti-tax, libertarian bent, the Liberal Democrats. These parties are unlikely to affect the lower house, but they could inspire conservatives to use their upper house vote as a protest against the government, leading to a difficult Senate for Turnbull upon election. Many on the outer edges of the right look to Europe, where nationalist parties are picking up large chunks of the popular vote, and believe that all Australia needs is a charismatic leader to galvanise the same</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">constituency - a Pauline Hanson for the 21st century. This is the context in which Peter Dutton's scaremongering over refugees makes sense. We don't actually need the Europeans to teach us the art of using refugees as a political weapon, and exploiting voters' fears about "being overrun". We have a fine tradition of it ourselves. So fine that the leader of the right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, last year called for Britain to adopt Australian policies to reduce the number of unskilled workers coming in from Europe. Nonetheless the European experience sure helps - it's so visually arresting - all those hordes crossing borders. National armies pushing them back. <b>Boat</b> after <b>boat</b> breaching the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Why not borrow a smidge of that stuff to make a point about <b>asylum</b> seekers - only if there's too many of them, of course - overloading our job queues/dole queues/ Medicare system? If the Prime Minister wanted to, he could have used the debate over immigration to embroider his mantra about jobs and growth, because immigration has been a great engine for both those things. The fact that he didn't has many thinking he's looking over his shoulder.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160520ec5l00002</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020160520ec5l0003f" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News Review</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The 28 words that brought Turnbull back to earth</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Hartcher   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1666 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull entered a Faustian pact from the very outset. It wasn't going to end well, writes Peter Hartcher.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Tony Abbott endorsed the government's re-election this week with the words: "This is my legacy, this is Malcolm Turnbull's legacy, this is our legacy, and that's why it's so important that we re-elect a Coalition government on July 2."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It cost Turnbull a very great deal to earn that endorsement. To keep Abbott's policies intact, Turnbull had to surrender some of his own. To keep faith with his party's conservative elements, he broke faith with much that the Australian people expected from him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In earning those 28 words of approval, Turnbull lost the approval of 3.25 million voters over the past six months, based on the fall in his approval rating in the Fairfax-Ipsos poll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, with it, he lost a towering electoral advantage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are two types of leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One is the common, or garden variety, politician who offers voters a transaction - you give me your vote, and I will give you something in exchange: "Vote for me and I will give you a tax cut. Or a handout. Or a highway."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or, "Vote for me and I will cancel something you hate. An incompetent government. Or unchecked <b>boat</b> arrivals. Or a corporate tax cut."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the transactional leader and you know him well. And you know her well, for that matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other is a much rarer breed - the transformational leader. The US political scientist who first described these categories, James MacGregor Burns, wrote that "the transforming leader looks for potential motives in followers, seeks to satisfy higher needs, and engages the full person of the follower".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first type of leader is the politician seeking power with a promise of deliverable goods. The transformational leader offers inspiration: "The result of transforming leadership is a relationship of mutual stimulation and elevation that converts followers into leaders and may convert leaders into moral agents," MacGregor Burns wrote in his major work, Leadership, in 1978.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he first took the Liberal leadership, Australia looked to Malcolm Turnbull as this type, a transforming leader who would energise the government and the people to achieve great change together. That's why an exceptionally big proportion, seven out of 10 respondents, told pollsters they approved of him in his early months as leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This made him as popular as Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten combined - one transformational leader is as good as two transactional ones, in this instance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His initial popularity translated into an astonishing lead for the government in the polls. If the Coalition's 57 per cent share of the vote in November's Fairfax-Ipsos poll had been translated into an election result, it would have been one of the two greatest election victories in the modern political era that began with the creation of the two-party structure in 1949, even more emphatic than Gough Whitlam's "It's Time" landslide of 55.7 per cent in 1975.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only election victory to compare with Turnbull's early standing would have been the dashing Harold Holt's 1966 rout of Labor's decrepit Arthur Calwell. It was an economic boomtime and the country was caught up in the early popularity of the Vietnam War, ideal for an incumbent conservative government with a stylish new leader against a 70-year-old confirmed loser. Holt won with 56.9 per cent of the vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whitlam was Australia's last truly transforming leader, an exciting moderniser who ended up being a little too exciting and modern for his time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia looked to Turnbull to modernise and rejuvenate the country in his own image, a man who represented self-made prosperity, technological modernity, an energy revolution to solve climate change and power a renewable future, and a new social tolerance, even, perhaps a republic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"A transformational leader is trying to carry the people to something different," says Professor James Walter, a political psychologist at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was a reasonable conclusion that Turnbull would be a transformational leader if you thought he was committed to the sorts of things he'd advocated in the past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"A truly transformational leader would have stuck much more to the principles he'd enunciated, despite attacks from the right of the Liberal Party."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was never going to happen. Turnbull had entered a Faustian pact from the outset. To win the support he needed to take the leadership from Abbott, Turnbull promised some of his party's conservative MPs that he would retain key Abbott policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the frenetic hours leading to Turnbull's challenge, Abbott's numbers men confronted some of the conservative MPs who had decided to support the challenger. "How could someone like you possibly support someone like Malcolm Turnbull?" one demanded to know, accusing the defector of ideological treachery for supporting a known social liberal like Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer was that "Malcolm has given me iron-clad guarantees" that he would keep Abbott's policies on same-sex marriage and climate change. And because Turnbull was such a popular figure, he represented an irresistible package for this MP. His conservative priorities would be protected and his chances of re-election would be improved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Said an Abbott loyalist who worked the numbers for the outgoing prime minister: "Malcolm would never have got the five extra votes he needed to beat Tony if not for the deals he made with conservatives."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was Turnbull's Faustian bargain. Though it was not obvious to the electorate for months, he had traded his long-standing political persona for the votes he needed to take the leadership. In taking power on the conservatives' terms, he had surrendered the basis for his popular appeal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new Prime Minister found a very neat way of explaining publicly why he would keep Abbott's policies, despite his own political history: "I was a member of the Abbott cabinet." He was a participant in the decisions of the Abbott government and now led the same party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leading member of the Liberals' conservative faction delivers this harsh judgment: "Malcolm said he wanted to be prime minister by the age of 40, but when he turned 60 and he hadn't made it he decided that he'd do anything to get the job."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Says James Walter: "A truly transformative leader would have crashed or crashed through." Instead he found himself in a difficult position as Prime Minister: "The party expects him to do two things. One, win the support of the public. Two, keep the party in line, including its right wing. These are incompatible demands."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull surrendered his transformative potential on taking the leadership. The people, disbelievingly at first, gradually understood that Turnbull no longer supported the causes he had long championed and his popularity plummeted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He became what we see today in the election campaign - a transactional leader, the common or garden variety. He no longer holds out the promise of a great national modernisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He does what transactional leaders always do. He asks for your vote and, in exchange, he offers "jobs and growth" through a company tax cut. He offers a $6 a week income tax cut if you earn over $80,000. He offers to keep the borders secure and <b>asylum</b> seeker boats at bay. He offers to keep you safe from Labor's supposed assault on your home, as represented by its negative gearing policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In short, he has fallen back on the Coalition's traditional brand identity, the party perceived as best for the economy and national security, the so-called "daddy party" persona that conservative parties worldwide commonly represent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten, too, is a transactional leader, falling back on his party's traditional brand identity, the party perceived as best for providing education and healthcare, the so-called "mummy party" persona that progressive parties worldwide commonly represent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the two of them go from electorate to electorate, handing out grants and promising money, sometimes identical grants for the same projects, as they did on consecutive days with the Appin Road funding in Sydney's south-west this week. Seeking votes, seat by seat, promise by promise, transaction by transaction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Saturday's Fairfax-Ipsos poll shows that, after two weeks of the campaign, the two parties are exactly as they were at the beginning - deadlocked in a statistical tie on their share of the vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is good enough for the Coalition to hold onto power, but with a smaller majority. Labor needs something a little over 4 per cent to win in its own right, assuming a uniform swing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taking the average of the past three Fairfax-Ipsos polls, the swing against the government since the last election stands at 2.8 per cent now. That implies that the government will lose seven seats if the swing is uniform, though a net six if you assume Clive Palmer's seat of Fairfax reverts to the Coalition. Either way, the government would retain a workable majority in the House of six or seven seats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Labor is to win, it needs to do something powerful to generate momentum against a government that still has, despite everything, a more popular leader than Labor. Unless, of course, the government should visit some disastrous blunder on itself, which is the other possibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Turnbull walked into the politics in the pub session in Darwin this week, one astute member of the crowd asked him a question. Did the prime minister look forward to winning the election so he'd have a mandate in his own right, able to implement the sort of progressive policies he'd always stood for instead of the conservative ones he now represents?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull evaded the question splendidly and moved on to the next transaction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Hartcher is the political editor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A NON-BELIEVER'S REFUSAL TO STAY SILENT ON ISLAM</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Anne Hyland   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1880 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>53</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lunch with The AFR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Muslim world's most prominent iconoclast believes education is key to the rise and strengthening of moderate Muslims, writes Anne Hyland.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration is once again in the headlines on the day I arrive for lunch with the Somali-born author, former politician and activist Aayan Hirsi Ali. This time Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is arguing that many of the refugees coming here, not the unprocessed <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> but those that come through the proper channels, are illiterate and innumerate in their own language and take Australian jobs or become a drain on welfare. It's a divisive and crude statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Hirsi Ali, who's an outspoken critic of Islam and was also an <b>asylum</b> seeker, has a few hardline opinions of her own on immigration and how governments should respond to the growing global displacement of people, particularly from the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We meet at Aria restaurant that sits diagonally opposite the Sydney Opera House. The restaurant is surprisingly quiet so we have a prime table watching the throng of tourists mill about the Opera House. As we cast our eyes over the menus, the elegant Hirsi Ali, 46, has been discreetly observing a group of Muslim women among the tourists outside. They are dressed in tight modern jeans, colourful shirts, headscarves, wear make-up and fashionable sunglasses, and are clearly enjoying themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She notes the absence of the "offensive burqa" among the women, which leads to a digression on how appalled she is that <span class="companylink">Dolce & Gabbana</span> have designed a burqa collection. For her, D&G are making a statement of support for the fanatical Islamists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"<span class="companylink">Dolce & Gabbana</span> make all their money from the female body and the woman in relationship with her body and how can I expose it in the most beautiful and desirable way possible. Now they're designing garments that cover it? How can they possibly be doing that? Yes, they think it's about money but the people who designed the SS uniforms only thought of money too."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hirsi Ali returns her gaze to the Muslim women outside and leaves behind her frustration and disappointment in the Italian fashion house.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That's a picture of great harmony," she says of the women. "Sitting here looking at that, you think that Australia's definitely not going through the same do or die moment that is happening in France. Since November they have had emergency law. Australia seems very far away from that." Last November, co-ordinated terrorist attacks by ISIS in Paris left 130 dead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a cloudy, cool Sydney day, and Hirsi Ali is dressed in dark tailored pants, a long jacket and scarf. A waiter arrives and he proves to be another distraction. He's sporting a thin Salvador Dali-esque moustache that has been coiled tightly at the ends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally we return to the menu; we order the same entree of nasturtium and ricotta dumplings with grilled king oyster mushroom and Thai shallots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the main Hirsi Ali orders the lamb with harissa and pine nuts, while I opt for the pink snapper, with jerusalem artichoke and finger lime butter. We share a side of broccolini in lemon oil. She declines the offer of bread.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You have to choose your sins," she says. For the record, those sins this lunch are lamb and wine, which she loves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If I'm going to have wine then I won't have bread and dessert. You get to that age where you think you can't do it all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hirsi Ali, a petite woman, is currently reading a book called Prime by American neurologist Dr Kulreet Chaudhary. It's not a book she would ordinarily pick up but it was given to her by a friend. "I thought I'm going to indulge her and now I can't put it down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The main message in the book is that whatever happens in your gut and whatever happens in your brain are related and that you've got to get the balance inside your gut right between the good and bad bacteria."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We turn back to the topic of immigration as our entrees quickly arrive. Hirsi Ali's position is that Australians have a right to say who comes here and who doesn't.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That question is absolutely legitimate. As an individual you determine who you want to let into your house, you have your household and the way you like things done. The people you let into your house are those who will respect that and abide by it. Even corporations have a selection process they apply to who they hire and let in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When it's the nation state, you should also have a set of rules: we will let you in because we understand there can be a win-win." In doing so, the government, she says, has to be explicit about what it expects and it can't just be about box-ticking, such as you've fled a war-zone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They have to say we have given you the opportunity to survive and this is what we demand of you. If you come here, you accept our way of life. This is our language, our laws and our eccentricities."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This she says will be harder to do in Germany as it starts to integrate almost one million refugees. Hirsi Ali describes the decision by German chancellor Angela Merkel as "mindbogglingly wrong".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She's a brilliant politician. She's one of my role models as a politician, as a leader, and in Europe right now she's really made her mark. But on the immigration issue she made a huge mistake."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hirsi Ali prefers the Australian government's approach in its decision to prioritise the intake of Syrian Christians among the 12,000 Syrians it has agreed to take. "Christians across the Muslim world are subjected to religious persecution that the average Australian cannot grasp, fathom and understand. They're tortured and killed, their property is taken, their women raped."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She says it remains a puzzle to her why governments of developed nations the world over argue against economic migrants, when in her opinion they're the ones most likely to adapt, the best educated, have the most to contribute and are least likely to be hardline religious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hirsi Ali was herself an <b>asylum</b> seeker in her early 20s, leaving behind Kenya for the Netherlands. She was born in Somalia, the daughter of opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. But the family left when she was eight and moved through Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and then Kenya. Her peripatetic upbringing means she speaks six languages.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1992, Hirsi Ali arrived in the Netherlands and once there worked in jobs ranging from a cleaner, translator while she studied a degree in politics, and later worked at the Dutch immigration and naturalisation service and a think tank. She became disenchanted with Islam during this time and was shocked by the 9/11 attacks. It put her on the path to becoming a staunch critic of Islam, calling for its reform, after she renounced her religion. She's now an atheist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost a decade after her arrival in the Netherlands, Hirsi Ali became a controversial politician and called for the country to stop overlooking the abuse of Muslim women and girls there, particularly through arranged marriages. She became renowned for her inflammatory remarks. In one instance she was quoted as saying that by Western standards the Prophet Mohammed as represented in the Koran could be considered a paedophile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was the film Submission made with director Theo van Gogh about the treatment of women in Islamic society. Hirsi Ali did the voice over and wrote the script. The film led to van Gogh's murder in 2004 and since then Hirsi Ali has travelled with a security detail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As our mains are served, we discuss Hirsi's visits to Australia. This trip she's been here to speak about her most recent book Heretic: Why Islam needs a Reformation now. She has authored four books and now resides in the United States with her husband, historian Niall Ferguson, and their son Thomas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two met at a TIME magazine's most influential people annual awards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hirsi Ali's argument for reformation lies in doctrinal reform. She divides the chapters of the Koran into the Prophet Mohammed's early period at Mecca, that was spiritual and apolitical, and the other period, his political and military period of Medina. She says under the doctrine of abrogation, official schools of Islamic law have ruled that Medina supersedes the early Meccan period. And this is where Islam needs to change from within if the battle against the extremists is to be won.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the outside she says countries such as Australia need to refuse Muslim immigrants who are Medinas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there's education, which she sees as important in the rise and strengthening of moderate Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If you learn critical thinking then you're immunised when a crazy, charismatic person comes and says, 'You know I really think you should engage in Holy War'. They would ask: 'Why would I harm another human being? Why would I give up everything I have here to go to Syria? Why as a woman be a Jihadi wife?'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The fact that some young Muslims who are raised in Western society don't have that and are attempting to go says something about them, households, mosques and society and that education is failing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our lunch takes a twist, over coffee and tea, when I ask Hirsi Ali why she made fighting radical Islam her life's work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm bored of the subject. It's not stimulating any more," she says but refuses to abandon it. "I hope more and more people understand if we all go silent they have their way with us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Then they can spread the political and violent tenets of Islam through our schools, mosques and we all just sit back and let it happen until we're overtaken by it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She points to the transformation of countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia where, within decades, Islamic extremism took hold, and even the retrograde steps now occurring in Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If there was no fight against the fanatics what would she rather be doing? She says working on a product for menstruation for women in developing countries where there's little or no water, and girls and women are often still using bamboo or pieces of cloth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's taken for granted in the west, says Hirsi Ali, and yet in some developing countries young girls will miss or not attend school for one week out of every month because of menstruation and there are even cultural taboos or "crazy" attitudes towards it. "It's one of those things where we can improve the position of women through a very mundane, small, simple change."W</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ARIA RESTAURANT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 Macquarie Street, Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mineral water, $12</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2 two-course lunches, $160</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 broccolini, $15</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4 glasses wine, $93</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 flat white, 1 mint tea, $9.50</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Credit card surcharge $4.34</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Total: $289.50</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>WELL AND TRULY WEDGED</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Clark   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1704 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Strategy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is getting squeezed as the Greens and the Coalition carve up the middle ground, writes Andrew Clark.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marketing executives overseeing advertising strategies ranging from soap powder to election campaigns often employ the same approach: pick an established formula, modify it to suit a changed consumer-cum-voter environment, and make it the bedrock of the new campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over the years this has applied to such advertising campaigns as "New Improved Omo". Now this modified-winning-formula is being adapted to the Liberal Party's current federal election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The approach comes complete with an additional, "New Improved Omo" twist. It's being used by Liberal Party strategists to wedge the ALP, but also, from an opposing perspective, by the Greens for the same purpose. Labor now faces a chipping-away process from the Liberals on the right and the Greens on the left over issues such as refugees and Sunday penalty rates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The campaign's twin pillars are what proponents say is a stable economic plan, like the Liberal Party's "jobs and growth" mantra, complemented by an emphasis on national security, like buttressing the nation's borders against terrorism and refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The potential significance of this wedging from right and left is that it could tip the balance in favour of the Coalition on July 2, at the end of a closely fought election campaign. According to the latest Financial Review-Ipsos poll, which was taken on May 17-19, the Coalition and Labor remain in a dead heat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Based on stated preferences, the poll finds the Coalition is at 50 per cent and Labor is at 50 per cent. Both are unchanged since the last Fairfax-Ipsos poll on May 5-7. But the latest poll does tilt slightly in favour of the Coalition, as the percentages change to 51-49 after the 2013 election pattern of preference allocation is factored in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Fairfax-Ipsos poll finds that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's approval rating of 48 per cent is unchanged since the last poll, and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's approval rating of 40 per cent is up two points since the last poll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As these numbers show the race remains tight, centrist Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is embracing an approach which, in somewhat different form, dates back a quarter of a century to his more conservative predecessor, Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, and Howard's key strategist, Lynton Crosby, and pollster, Mark Textor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then it has been adapted in varying degrees by other centre-right parties, including the ruling Tory Party in Britain which employed Crosby in its victorious 2015 election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As polls tighten, the past few days have witnessed an escalation in this wedging campaign. Discussing the Greens' plan to quadruple the <b>refugee</b> intake, for example, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told Sky News last Tuesday that refugees arriving in Australia "won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English. These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens reacted strongly. More important, particularly in terms of the government's election strategy, so did Labor, describing the remarks as xenophobic and offensive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton's comments nevertheless achieved their aim of getting refugees back on the front page and trending on social media sites. The language may be different, but there are echoes in former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott's call to "stop the boats" in 2010, and Liberal Prime Minister John Howard's 2001 declaration that "we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Designing the Liberals' wedge campaign is made easier for Mark Textor, who is closely involved in the current election campaign. He has experience of 2001. Textor knows it was the <b>refugee boat</b> crisis back then that not only helped the government back into office, but, at the other end, saw a dramatic spurt in Greens Party membership by former Labor supporters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the end of that 2001 election campaign, the Liberals increased their vote. It went up again in the 2004 election, when the other pillar in a modified-winning-formula campaign strategy - who do you trust to run the economy? - was also prominent. Turning to the current campaign, the ALP is regarded as vulnerable on the <b>refugee</b> issue by both the Coalition and the Greens, but for diametrically opposed reasons. Labor has a similar <b>refugee boat</b> turnback policy to the government, but is hobbled by an at times shambolic handling of this issue when it was in government, and public dissent by some party figures over <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, for example, Labor's candidate for the Liberal-held northern Perth seat of Moore, David Leith, withdrew after he described immigration detention centres as "gulags" on social media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are the sort of views that are more at home among the Greens. The Greens would quadruple the <b>refugee</b> intake to about 50,000 and abandon the offshore <b>refugee</b> camps in Nauru and Manus Island, although the latter has already been ordered closed by a Papua New High Court judgment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, as part of the Liberal Party's wedging campaign, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claims many Labor Party candidates and MPs don't really support the government's actions on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has accused Labor's deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, who faces a tough fight in holding off the Greens in her seat of Sydney, of "crab-walking away in the way of the Greens". Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Turnbull was "telling lies" about Labor's position on <b>asylum</b> seekers. "There is no truth to any aspect or any detail of what he's saying," Shorten said. Meanwhile, Dutton's office released estimates that claimed the Greens' plan to host 50,000 <b>refugee</b> arrivals a year would cost $7 billion over four years, while Labor's proposal to increase the intake to 27,000 would cost about $2.3 billion over the same period.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition supports the existing intake of 13,750, which rises to 18,750 in 2018-19. But it also includes a "one-off" intake of 12,000 Syrians fleeing their war-torn country. Interestingly, this means the effective difference in the planned <b>refugee</b> intake of the government and Labor opposition for 2016 is 1250 refugees - hardly a major number, and not one likely to feature in any wedge campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But differences are greater when it comes to Sunday penalty rates. This is where the Liberal Party is applying a classic wedge by highlighting divisions between the Greens, which want Sunday penalty rates enshrined in law, and Labor, which favours taking the issue to the <span class="companylink">Fair Work Commission</span> for a decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Liberals are hostile to Sunday penalty rates and so are numerous business groups. Turnbull says his government would respect the commission's finding. Shorten believes the status quo would stand when the commission brought down its decision after the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attacking Labor from the left on penalty rates and refugees, the Greens are focusing their most ambitious election campaign ever on Labor-held Lower House inner city seats such as Batman, Wills and Melbourne Ports in Melbourne, Grayndler and Sydney in Sydney, the "sea change" seat of Richmond on the NSW north coast, and Fremantle in WA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In addition they are targeting the ostensibly safe Liberal-held seat of Higgins in Melbourne, where the sitting member is Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer. The Greens currently have 10 senators in a 76-member Upper House, and one Lower House MP, Adam Bandt, who is the member for Melbourne</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Observing their tactics to wrest more Lower House seats, largely from Labor, the Greens transmogrify from a left-wing, grass-roots popular movement concerned by issues like global warming, refugees and income inequality, to a bare knuckle political party - one obsessed with gaining, or at least accessing, power - just like any other political party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far from playing footsies with their ideological cousins at the ALP, the Greens have historically done preference deals with their policy nemesis, the Liberal Party. Such an arrangement increases the Greens' chances of gaining seats, and suits the Liberals' aim of dividing the left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, this preference swap arrangement was torpedoed by then Liberal leader Tony Abbott before the 2013 election, and is an unlikely prospect on July 2, although not impossible. Less headline grabbing, but still significant, would be a looser understanding, where both parties favour the other in how-to-vote literature, but there are no first preference swaps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No decisions have been made so far, and political parties tend to wait until just before the election itself to maximise their bargaining position in any possible preference swap deal. Whatever the final arrangements, the critical role of preferences shows up in the seat of Melbourne Ports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the 2013 federal election, the Labor member, Michael Danby, gained just 31.67 per cent of the primary vote, whereas the Liberal candidate, Kevin Ekendahl, scored 41.05 per cent and the Greens candidate, Ann Birrell, just over 20 per cent. So if the Greens and Liberals had run a preference swap deal, the Liberal aspirant, Kevin Ekendahl, would have won the seat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is vulnerable in a different way in the seat of Batman. Currently held by long-time ALP apparatchik David Feeney - who, like Greens leader Richard di Natale, is embroiled in a parliamentary assets declaration row - Batman is in Melbourne's northern suburbs, such as Clifton Hill, Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Preston, and Reservoir.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last election, Feeney secured 41.29 per cent of the primary vote. But the Liberal candidate, George Souris, scored 22.46 per cent and the Greens' candidate, Alex Bhatal, gained 26.40 per cent. So any disciplined preference swap deal between the Greens and the Liberals would be likely to result in another Labor seat falling and the election of an extra Greens MP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bhatal is standing for Batman again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's six weeks to go, and there will be many more political spills and thrills along the way. But an unofficial Liberal-Greens wedge campaign could end up being the 2016 election campaign leitmotif, or even decider. P</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | melb : Melbourne | sydney : Sydney | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020160520ec5l0000i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160520ec5l0005i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Forum - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Malcolm's boats card</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon - Michael Gordon is political editor of The Age.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1138 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics The policy contest on border protection is not nearly as stark as Turnbull and Dutton assert. - THE NATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull had a decision to make this week when Peter Dutton went rogue in his bid to impose border protection and boats on the election campaign and, in the process, become the most polarising figure in Australian politics.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister could reinforce Dutton's appeal to fear and xenophobia by endorsing his Immigration Minister's insensitive, contradictory and inflammatory comments about refugees taking "Australian jobs" and generally being a burden on the taxpayer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or he could repudiate Dutton, return the focus of the election to economic management, and vindicate the faith of those in the middle who invested so much hope in his ascension to nation's top job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In choosing the former, but injecting a dose of context and qualification to soften Dutton's brutal assertions, Turnbull gave the clearest possible signal that the Coalition campaign is not proceeding nearly as smoothly as many anticipated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That other Malcolm is no longer with us, but it is a safe bet that Malcolm Fraser, the last Victorian Liberal prime minister, would have been outraged by Dutton's comments and bitterly disappointed by Turnbull's subsequent endorsement of his "outstanding" Immigration Minister - and would have said so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A common assumption was that Turnbull knew in advance of what Dutton planned to say and had given his consent. As Dutton's chief media cheerleader, radio host Ray Hadley, put it: "The Prime Minister has unleashed you because he realises this is how you win the election."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was not quite the case. The Prime Minister had no warning of what Dutton intended to say, but he gave his minister his imprimatur the previous day in Darwin, when he accused Bill Shorten of "crab-walking" towards the Greens, who lacked "the commitment to keep our borders secure".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The big disappointment, especially for the Turnbull true believers, is that, both before and after Dutton's comments, he chose to exploit the issue of border protection for political gain, effectively warning that Australia's standing as a high-migration, multicultural success story would be at risk if Labor won power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Border protection and immigration are, and always have been, key political issues," Turnbull declared on Wednesday, when the truth is that the national interest is advanced when both issues are the subject of bipartisan consensus, as they were before 2001.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The question left hanging is how this will play out over the next six weeks, with conventional wisdom suggesting the greater the focus on border protection, the better will be the Coalition's prospects of holding a swag of seats, especially in the outer suburbs and regions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Patrick Baume, group communications manager for Isentia, reports, it has been the leading issue on talkback the past couple of days, with "overwhelming" support for Dutton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Turnbull is probably losing some skin in inner-city Liberal seats by backing Dutton so strongly, but it looks like a plus everywhere else," Baume says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there are four reasons why border protection may not be the plus for the Coalition that it was in the Tampa election of 2001 or in 2013, when Tony Abbott ran so hard on "stopping the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One is that the issue has receded as a talking point because the boats have stopped and Nauru and Manus Island, where around 2000 refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers remain in limbo, most of them damaged and mentally unwell, are so far away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A second is that many progressive voters, those who saw Turnbull as the antidote to the divisiveness and negativity of recent years, will express their disappointment at the ballot box, and perhaps be joined by those of <b>refugee</b> heritage who recoiled at Dutton's remarks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A third is that the fallout from Dutton's remarks becomes a distraction from the economic message Turnbull insists, and the voters assert, is far and away the key issue at this election, as it did on Friday when the Prime Minister was in Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Can I just say to you, we've got a great story about Tasmanian jobs and growth here," a frustrated PM replied when the first question asked if he was embarrassed by Dutton's remarks. "Let's focus on that and then we can move on to other national issues."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, the policy contest on border protection is not nearly as stark as Turnbull and Dutton assert, with Labor committed to the two most contentious and planks of Coalition policy, and the two that have been most significant in stopping <b>boat</b> arrivals: turnbacks and offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The strength of that commitment was apparent when Tony Burke, who held the immigration portfolio for less than three months before Labor's 2013 defeat, was interviewed on the ABC's 7.30 with the Coalition's Mathias Cormann on Thursday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Cormann chipped in that Burke did not believe in the policy endorsed at Labor's national conference last year, the response was raw, unconfected emotion: "Sorry, Mathias! I had 33 people die on my watch! Don't you tell me I don't believe this," said Burke, who had the names of the deceased on his ministerial desk as a constant reminder of policy failure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where Labor differs, and what motivates many of the Labor MPs and candidates who have spoken out, is on the fate of those who have been on Nauru and Manus for the past three years and whose only options under Dutton are to return to the countries they fled or accept resettlement in Cambodia (if they are on Nauru) or Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles says there will be no retreat on turnbacks or offshore processing, but vows the resettlement of the Nauru and Manus caseloads will be his top priority if Labor wins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles says his first act as minister would be to organise a visit to the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> in Geneva and reconnect with the global community on <b>refugee</b> issues, with the aim of identifying resettlement countries to take refugees from Manus and Nauru. That would be welcome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether Marles and Shorten can win the political argument with Dutton and Turnbull, or whether the Greens opposition to turnbacks and offshore processing strikes a chord in inner city electorates, will become clear on July 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the election a bigger challenge will confront whoever is prime minister: to rule a line under the period when immigration, attitudes to those who seek <b>asylum</b> and even national security are exploited for narrow political purposes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pity, and the failing of Turnbull's prime ministership, is that it did not happen before this election was called.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gvote : Elections | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020160520ec5l0005i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160519ec5k0004j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> comments are a necessary reminder</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Malcolm Turnbull is the Australian Prime Minister. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>775 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must ensure refugees have the support and training to succeed in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I rejoice in the vibrant diversity of our migrant nation. I'm proud to lead a country that welcomes refugees from shattered, war-torn corners of the world.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And barely a day goes past when I don't celebrate that we are the most successful and harmonious multicultural nation in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we cannot be under any illusions about what our multicultural success is built upon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reason Australians welcome high levels of immigration - the highest since the early postwar period - is that we have confidence that our government is thoroughly in control of our immigration and humanitarian program, deciding who can come here and ensuring that when they do they receive the support they need to integrate into Australian societies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We welcome 13,750 refugees each year - the world's third largest permanent <b>refugee</b> resettlement program - because our borders are secure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Strong borders are the foundation of our high-immigration multicultural success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not a hypothetical proposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We've seen elsewhere what happens when nations lose control of their borders and fail to invest in the integration of migrants who arrive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We only have to look at recent events in Europe, where internal borders are non-existent and external borders difficult to manage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And tragically, in our own country, we only have to look to the previous Labor government, when a collapse of border security emboldened 50,000 individuals to entrust their lives to people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our opponents in the Labor Party and the Greens who promote more open borders cannot evade the awful consequences of the last time they tried this experiment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 1200 people drowned at sea. And they are only the ones we know about.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I was opposition leader I begged Kevin Rudd not to abandon the Howard government's border protection policy. But that's exactly what he did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Kevin Rudd 's party did not have a commitment to strong borders any more than Bill Shorten's party does today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This fundamental problem is on display as a divided Labor Party is once again drawn towards a partnership with the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But those who trade in gesture politics, who claim a monopoly on empathy, have to face the natural consequences of the soft border policies they propose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is nothing generous about policies that lead families to drown at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is nothing humane about gestures that lead to young women, men and their children being placed in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Howard government lost office in 2007 there was not one single child in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Within five years, the number of children who arrived by <b>boat</b> in detention peaked at nearly 2000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, after three years of a Coalition government, that number is zero. There has not been a single unauthorised <b>asylum</b> seeker vessel arrive on our shores for more than 660 days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our borders are secure, the people smugglers have been thwarted and the vulnerable families on whom they prey are not getting on leaky boats to come to Australia in what was a perilous and often fatal venture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has settled more than 850,000 refugees since the Second World War. They and their offspring have helped make us what we are. We cannot imagine modern Australia without the contribution of those refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But our <b>refugee</b> programs have not succeeded by accident. We make considerable investments in settlement services - teaching English and helping bridge what, for many migrants, is a very difficult transition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are able to increase our annual <b>refugee</b> intake from 13,750 up to 18,750 by 2019 because we know we can support those additional numbers and just as importantly the community believes we can too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And we are welcoming another 12,000 from the Syrian conflict zone, particularly persecuted minorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The observation by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton, that many refugees lack English skills and some lack literacy even in their own language is no more than a statement of fact.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a reminder that having welcomed people to Australia we must ensure they have the support and the training to be able to succeed in our society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These settlement services are costly, which we do not begrudge. But we do believe that our program - with the carefully calibrated increases that we propose - is the right size and is at a level we can support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Secure borders and a well-managed migration system are the bedrock of confidence on which our successful multicultural society is built.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020160519ec5k0004j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020160519ec5k00040" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leaks aside, PM’s plan is boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew ProbynFederal Political Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1119 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>67</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">M alcolm Turnbull’s lucky number begins with an eight. Bill Shorten’s begins with a seven.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A simple win on July 2 might not be quite enough for the Prime Minister in the long term.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will take a victory of 80 or more of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives to make Turnbull comfortable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any fewer and he would begin his first term of a personal mandate as a weakened leader. He would not be assured of safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Shorten, any win will do. Hell, he would negotiate a win if need be, like Julia Gillard did, notwithstanding Labor’s forced posturing about not striking any agreement with the Greens in a hung <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But short of a win, negotiated or otherwise, if Labor manages to reduce the Government’s majority to within five to 10 seats, Shorten has a good chance of living on as Labor leader to fight another election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Six weeks out from the 2016 vote, Labor knows it is still behind where it would be if it were the frontrunner for government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The polls may be close but an essential ingredient is missing: the energy for change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We saw it mobilised in 2007 when Kevin Rudd overthrew John Howard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Neither is there sufficient enmity present to pitch the Government, as seen in 2013 when voters gladly sacked Labor in favour of Tony Abbott ’s untried crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Governments don’t change by accident in Australia, even if the new prime minister isn’t there by electoral embrace — as in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Changing a government is an emotionally charged, deliberate act. It comes from the heart or gut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Excitement at the prospect of the new propelled Rudd into power nine years ago. Disgust at Labor installed Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has proved he is no Messiah but he has sufficiently eased the dangerous antipathy for the coalition that had built up under Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s tactic has been to give voters no reason for alarm. Indeed, he’d rather most electors remained oblivious to the campaign for as long as possible, lest they be provoked or roused into an emotional response. Less is more for the Turnbull-led coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This attitude is seen in Turnbull’s steady-as-she-goes campaigning. By week’s end after a dash down to Tasmania today he will have visited every State and Territory in a fortnight, even if the 14-hour visit to WA was rudely short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal Party Federal director Tony Nutt will reassess the campaign but it is unlikely we will see Turnbull adopting the frantic pace employed by Rudd and Abbott in past campaigns in case it corrodes the projection of calm and assuredness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As you’d expect, the Labor camp’s intentions are very different. To engender the mood for change that Turnbull seeks to suppress, Shorten and the Labor machine is employing various tactics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Daily jogs and street walks — which have gone well for Shorten so far — are designed to promote the idea of momentum and community engagement as much as fitness for office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His awkward smooch with Margo in Adelaide on Tuesday will be one moment that might have successfully pierced the public consciousness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the quest for pictures on the TV nightly news, Margo was golden for Bill. Labor HQ would have their man snog every woman in a gopher if it guaranteed humanising footage on the bulletins each night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Labor HQ certainly can’t script their man being on the scene of car accidents every day to lend a comforting hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Getting known as something other than a one-dimensional cardboard cut-out occasionally seen on billboards is the challenge for every politician.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten will continue to chance his arm on topics that might have a chance to get his character and personality broadcast in technicolour: Medicare, hospital funding, schools and climate change. He will continue to intone a sense of calamity and emergency as he presents his important fix.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is patently clear that the coalition will respond to every Labor advance that shapes the daily political story by pulling out its trump card.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boats. Boats. And more boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s cynical but, judging by the way Turnbull has deployed the theme of border protection so far in this campaign, the coalition’s focus groups tell them it’s highly effective in Voterland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Peter Dutton showed everyone how it can be overplayed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Immigration Minister’s comment about innumerate and illiterate refugees stealing Australians’ jobs was as offensive to Australia’s migrant story as it was potentially detrimental to the coalition’s natural advantage on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Memories of Labor’s failures on <b>boat</b> arrivals are so recent only a gentle reminder is all it takes for the coalition to maintain the edge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a mistake to use those failures as an excuse to deliver messages with dark undertones. Sadly, m’dears, election campaigns are not run for people who take a deep interest in politics, or for people who read political columns (and I love you all, I really do).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Campaigns are run for people who take fleeting interest or no interest in politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s why messages are repeated ad nauseam — for that moment when the disengaged hear something or stumble across an event of interest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With luck, it will go a party’s way (such as Shorten’s embrace by Margo).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It can also go the other way as Channel 9’s Today show proved for the coalition yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More people would have taken more note of Karl Stefanovic’s take-down of Dutton’s “unAustralian” comments yesterday than would have registered the brouhaha in the first place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stefanovic’s central message? Dutton made comments he should be ashamed of.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Stefanovic dressing-down aside, boats will continue to be used against Labor for the rest of the campaign to deflate the tyres on the Labor bus. It’s miserable, negative politics but it works.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Six weeks out, ALP officials see the best scenario being election night going down to the wire, with the whole nation waiting on results coming in from South Australia and then WA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Getting at least 80-85 seats remains the firm coalition goal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what if Turnbull wins by 70-odd seats?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Governing post-July 2 is already going to be difficult for Turnbull, even with the armour of a personal mandate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tensions within the coalition over same-sex marriage and constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians will quickly re-emerge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But with a thin majority, the Right will sniff an opportunity to shake his cage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull needs the lucky eight to withstand the travails ahead.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Another hopeful reverses gear on <b>boat</b> turnbacks</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s new candidate in Fremantle, Josh Wilson, seconded a motion in February for the <span class="companylink">Fremantle council</span> to write to Malcolm Turnbull calling on him to close Australia’s offshore detention centres and stop <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Wilson, previously Fremantle deputy mayor, said yesterday he “fully supported” Labor’s ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP backs offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turnbacks, ­but a growing number of ALP candidates are opposing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has also emerged Labor’s candidate for Moore, David Leith, has withdrawn after he ­labelled detention centres ­“gulags” on social media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">… for the full report at The Australian on tablet, desktop or phone</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP takes focus off issues that cut its way</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another day, another xenophobic, racist and heartless scandal ­surrounding Peter Dutton and his views on illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals and the cost of settling refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another day Labor loses. The focus is not on Medicare and the Coalition avoids talking about the angst in its base about super­annuation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Scott Morrison, who happens to be Treasurer and a former immigration minister, held a press conference in Sydney yesterday — conveniently ahead of the ­official release of the “steady” ­unemployment rate of 5.7 per cent during a Liberal election campaign based on “jobs and growth” — he wasn’t asked about his superannuation proposals but was asked about illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The current Immigration Minister also did a long interview on Sydney radio station 2GB and was quizzed only about Labor’s attacks on his “scandalous” comments about refugees being illiterate and innumerate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it was another day when Malcolm Turnbull, defying Labor attempts to paint him as vacillating and inconsistent on social ­issues such as <b>asylum</b>-seekers, backed his Immigration Minister, accused Labor of trying to deflect attention from its own problems about David Feeney’s “forgotten” $2.3 million negatively geared house, and sounded like Tony ­Abbott on stopping the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the ALP tried to focus on Medicare and bulk-billing, an ­appeal to Labor’s heartland and ­female voters, Shorten kept up the attack on Dutton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead of letting the Dutton attacks be handled by third parties from the high moral ground, Labor itself has led the attack and chosen the battleground for two days ­running during the election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even Labor’s superannuation spokesman Jim Chalmers, who has made some salient points on the Coalition’s superannuation changes, was pinned down talking about refugees and Feeney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This all helps Labor deflect the Greens’ attack on a compassionate approach to refugees but does nothing to attract Liberal votes or lost Labor votes to the ALP in ­marginal seats — which is essential for an ALP victory.Labor can demonise Dutton all the way to the polling booth, but he will end up being a Philip Ruddock “hero” figure for the Coalition, as was the case in John Howard’s ­victory in 2001.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Dutton sparks <b>refugee</b> war of words</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BASS MP Andrew Nikolic has fired back at Denison independent MP Andrew Wilkie’s call for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to resign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilkie said Mr Dutton’s comments that “illiterate and innumerate” refugees would take the jobs of Australians were racist and disgusting.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Nikolic said Mr Wilkie was culpable for his role in the increase of <b>boat</b> arrivals under the Rudd and Gillard governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mr Wilkie was part of the grouping that dismantled strong border protection policies,” Mr Nikolic said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mr Wilkie is culpable, at least in part, for the fact that we had 50,000 unexpected arrivals on our borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mr Wilkie is culpable for the $11 billion in unexpected Budget costs as a result of those unexpected arrivals.” Mr Nikolic said Australia had the best immigration policy in the world. Mr Wilkie said Mr Dutton’s comments should cost the minister his job, if not by resignation then by prime ministerial sacking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This really gives the game away when it comes to Australia’s current <b>refugee</b> policy,” Mr Wilkie said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is proof that the Government’s border protection policies are just all about racism, fear and division.” It came as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rejected calls for Australia to take in more refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton, who says a greater intake of “illiterate and innumerate” refugees would see them languishing on welfare, warned of the “threat coming across our borders”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I very strongly believe that the threat coming across our borders, when you look at what’s happened in Brussels and Paris, the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere, this is a bigger issue at this election than it’s ever been,” Mr Dutton said.“And that’s why I think the Prime Minister has demonstrated leadership ... [Mr Shorten] wouldn’t be able to stop people smugglers because of the division within his own party.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE REAL COST OF WELCOMING REFUGEES</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some in the humanitarian intake require more support</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday Mangar Makur-Chuot sat in a Perth doctor’s surgery waiting for jabs ahead of his trip to the Rio Olympics. It’s a turn of events the dual-citizen sprinter could not have imagined during his childhood in a <b>refugee</b> camp in Kenya. Come August, he will compete in Rio in the 200m for his father’s country, South Sudan, with special permission to wear the badge of the West Australian Athletics Association.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Makur-Chuot experienced a change of fortune in 2005 when Australia selected him, his five siblings and his mother to be part of our annual humanitarian quota of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This year Australia will select 13,750 such refugees (the intake will rise to 18,750 by 2018-19), some from camps across Africa. From the vast numbers of Syrians and Iraqis forced to flee their war-torn homelands, there will be a one-off additional intake of 12,000 people, costed at more than $700 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week the cost of welcoming such refugees here and resettling them was thrust into public debate when the Greens called for our humanitarian quota to be raised to 50,000. The issue then exploded in the middle of the election campaign when Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said that “large percentages of them (refugees) have no English skills at all” and would “languish” in unemployment and on Medicare. Dutton added that, under the Greens’ policy, such people “would be taking Australian jobs”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cue outrage far and wide. Others, such as Malcolm Turnbull, emphasised Dutton was telling the truth and that the government was happy to meet the costs of resettling its intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor, meanwhile, wants to increase the annual humanitarian intake to 37,000. Dutton says Labor’s and the Greens’ policies would be hugely expensive. The government estimates that, across four years, the Greens’ policy would cost $7 billion and Labor’s proposal about $2.3bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This contrasts with the costs involved in settling <b>asylum</b>-seekers who landed in Christmas Island during the sustained wave of <b>boat</b> arrivals under Labor. Many of those granted protection were professionals who required less government assistance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 2011 report for the commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship found humanitarian entrants helped meet labour shortages but their contributions took time. The Social and Economic Contributions of First and Second Generation Humanitarian Entrants report found that, among those interviewed as new arrivals in 1994-96, 84 per cent of the refugees were unemployed. Three years later, 33 per cent still did not have jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is a function of them on average having less English language ability, less educational experience, different forms of family support, less pre-migration preparation, poorer physical and mental health and greater difficulty in having their qualifications and experience recognised,” the report says. In a 2010 survey of relatively new migrants to Australia, including 8500 refugees, half the respondents said they spoke English not well or not at all. The Australian Survey Research found 24.1 per cent were in paid work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Makur-Chuot and his family landed in Perth at the beginning of a phenomenal resources boom, as Western Australia underwent a decade-long transformation. He says they were embraced by locals as well as the bureaucracy; social workers, interpreters, case managers and English teachers all helped them build a new life. Immigration officials and their contractors helped Makur-Chuot and his family with housing and day-to-day support, such as going to the bank or <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span>; later, church volunteers stepped in to provide help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“People from the church still come to Mum’s house to fix things if one of us is not around. They are very good people,” Makur-Chuot says. He is finishing a sound engineering degree and donates his time as an ambassador for an indigenous sports initiative sponsored by the state government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His manager, Lindsay Bunn, says he is mobbed by Aboriginal kids on trips to remote towns and communities. “I actually think the kids can sense that he is from somewhere like where they are from, a regional area where kids grow up a bit tough.” Makur-Chuot believes his family’s story is common among refugees in Australia: the children in the family adapted quickly to their new country while their mother, widowed when his father was killed fighting for South Sudan in 1994, continues to struggle. The demands of rearing six children and a seventh child born in Australia are a full-time job for Makur-Chuot’s mother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mum still goes to English classes every Wednesday; sometimes her conversations can flow for a few words but then it will be a stop,” he says. “My mum is always troubled by what is going on back home with her own parents and other relatives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The kids in <b>refugee</b> families don’t have those pressures, we don’t look back so much.” Makur-Chuot’s siblings are pursuing vocations — his sister Sarah is a model who is studying business, while another sister, Susan, is a development officer at the West Australian Football Commission. His brother Chep is an engineer working for the government in South Sudan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government is not carrying the cost of humanitarian resettlement on its own. The West Australian Department of Sport and Recreation, for instance, has sunk $405,000 into a program at the Edmund Rice Centre in Perth’s northern suburbs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> boys and girls flock there after school on Wednesdays and Fridays to play Australian football with African-born youth workers and kids from other backgrounds. The <b>refugee</b> children’s parents come to watch and often end up as helpers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They do vital work in getting people new to Western Australia engaged in our community through sport,” says Ron Alexander, director general of the department. “Edmund Rice is special in that it brings the volunteers, families, kids and our existing sports together, ultimately to enjoy and contribute to our way of life.” One of the most enthusiastic participants is also the newest. Fatoumata Toure, 6, came to Australia as a <b>refugee</b> with her big family from Ivory Coast in 2010. She was just one year old then, and her love for footy delights her mother, Aramatu Sangari. Fatoumata and her little brother, nicknamed Meme, are regulars at training sessions. “My kids are happy and that makes me happy,” Sangari says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Makur-Chuot, who grew up in the same area as the kids who go to the Edmund Rice Centre, many <b>refugee</b> parents accept the sadness of being far from home and family because they did not come to Australia for themselves, they came for the kids.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In January, Syrian butcher Bashar Kujah expressed the same sentiment. It was two months after he, his wife and their children became the first family selected in the special intake of 12,000 Syrians to which the federal government agreed in response to the crisis in Syria and Iraq. “We definitely felt we had to leave our city, for the safety of our family,” Kujah said in an interview timed for Australia Day. It was obvious to reporters that Kujah’s English was poor — he responded to written questions through an interpreter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The sad thing we had to face was mainly leaving our relatives, friends and loved ones behind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“However, we had to remind ourselves every day that this is the only way we can secure a safer life for our children and to get them a better chance of a future. We have hope that some day we will see our relatives again.” Now it is six months since immigration officials and an interpreter greeted the Kujahs at Perth International Airport and took them to a hotel. They have moved into subsidised housing; the couple’s fourth child was born safely and the two oldest children are in an intensive school program for <b>refugee</b> kids that will ease them into mainstream school in coming weeks. And both parents are learning English.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kujah wants to work in his trade as a butcher or cook, and already billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has offered him a job when he completes his English course. Yesterday The Australian confirmed the job offer still stands, and Kujah expects to start work at Forrest’s Harvey Beef abattoir in southwestern Western Australia within three months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The family, like every other <b>refugee</b> accepted in the humanitarian program, is assigned a social worker, a case manager, interpreters and other help to facilitate their path in an unfamiliar land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agency contracted by the federal government to help the Kujahs and other refugees, the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre, says the Syrian crisis has prompted an extraordinary jump in offers from the public to help share the costs of welcoming refugees. Client services manager Paul Rafferty says his organisation usually struggled for volunteers “but there has been an outpouring — the number of people volunteering for us has trebled overnight, which has never happened before”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rafferty attributes the devastating beach photograph of drowned three-year-old <b>refugee</b> boy Alan Kurdi, beamed around the world, as prompting much public concern. “For the first time in a long time people have seen something that resonates with them,” Rafferty says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have received about 40 tubs of winter clothing and children’s games which we’ve been able to distribute to <b>refugee</b> families.” Rafferty acknowledges many <b>refugee</b> families need a lot of help across a long period, but he says the families that his organisation has begun to settle as part of the special intake of 12,000 Syrians and Iraqis are a little different from needier refugees, who have sometimes experienced generations of trauma. “The thing about the Syrians and the Iraqis coming through is that they are well educated, they are very entrepreneurial and they are going to have a really good settlement experience here,” Rafferty says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All refugees in Australia are provided 510 hours of English lessons, which takes about nine months. Before that time, refugees with poor English find it difficult to get work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan Gnanaraja “Raj” Jesuraja was granted a protection visa — which was deducted from Australia’s humanitarian quota — within a year of arriving at Christmas Island in an <b>asylum boat</b> in 2009. He completed English classes in detention and after his release, but his English was almost nonexistent to start with and he had to work hard to improve it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was living on <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> payments for a year before he found a job at a car yard in Perth. He now works as a cleaner at Campsie Public School in Sydney.His Indonesian wife, whom he met while waiting and saving up to catch an <b>asylum boat</b> to Australia, later joined him with their daughter. “We have had two more children and we are very. very happy,” he says.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM rejects <b>refugee</b> lift as Dutton raises alarm</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>197 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
MALCOLM Turnbull has rejected calls for Australia to accept more refugees as his Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declared border safety a “bigger issue at this election than it’s ever been”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM again attacked Labor over its border-protection credentials yesterday. Mr Turnbull said Australia was an “immigrant nation” with a “generous humanitarian program”, but stressed it had to be done properly. Labor has pledged to increase the annual <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 if it wins the July 2 election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, Mr Dutton – who has said a greater intake of “illiterate and innumerate” refugees would see them languishing on welfare – warned of the “threat coming across our borders”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I very strongly believe that the threat coming across our borders, when you look at what’s happened in Brussels and Paris, the US, UK and elsewhere, this is a bigger issue at this election than it’s ever been,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles yesterday gave an “absolute guarantee” that the party would not soften its <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies and was committed to offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PAGE 22: YOUR LETTERSPAGE 24: TORY SHEPHERD</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor hopeful reverses on boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANDREW BURRELL, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREMANTLE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s new candidate in Fremantle, Josh Wilson, seconded a motion in February for the <span class="companylink">Fremantle council</span> to write to Malcolm Turnbull calling on him to close Australia’s offshore detention centres and stop all <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Wilson, who was Fremantle deputy mayor until he stood aside last week to contest the election, said yesterday he “fully supported” Labor’s policy on ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Party backs offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turnbacks, ­although a growing number of ALP candidates are speaking out against it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also emerged yesterday that Labor’s candidate for the West Australian seat of Moore, David Leith, has withdrawn after he ­labelled detention centres ­“gulags” on social media and claimed Australia was holding ­civilians as “political hostages”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson is the chief of staff to Labor’s retiring MP in Fremantle, Melissa Parke, who has been a strong critic of the party’s policies on <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On February 24, Mr Wilson backed a motion at a <span class="companylink">City of Fremantle</span> council meeting that urged the Prime Minister to allow a group of 267 <b>asylum</b>-seekers, at the time facing a return to Nauru and Manus Island, to remain in Australia. He was also photographed around that time behind a #Let Them Stay banner alongside members of the <b>Refugee</b> Rights Action Network.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The council motion, which Mr Wilson seconded, called for Australia’s offshore detention centres to be closed down and for all of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers in those centres to be released to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also said Mr Turnbull should “immediately cease the practice of <b>boat</b> turnbacks”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson defended his act­ions yesterday, saying he believed the thrust of the motion he seconded was for the council to consider a ban on doing business with Wilson Security and other companies that profit from Australia’s system of offshore detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The motion seconded by Mr Wilson was moved by Socialist ­Alliance councillor Sam Wainwright and was endorsed unanimously.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens’ candidate in ­Fremantle, Kate Davis, said Mr Wilson’s decision to fall into line with Labor’s policies would not be received well by voters in the Labor-held seat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He clearly won’t be continuing Melissa Parke’s advocacy,” she said. “That’s going to be a problem for him. People want to have a bit of integrity back into politics and I think people are sick of having ­politicians and candidates who will say whatever it takes to get elected, regardless of what they ­really believe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think people hoped someone as strong as Melissa Parke would have been able to get a change in the Labor policy. If she hasn’t been able to achieve that, I don’t think the community can reasonably ­expect that Josh will be able to achieve that change.” Mr Wilson said Labor’s policy on <b>asylum</b>-seekers had been ­properly determined in an open process at the national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I will always speak up for the rights of <b>asylum</b>-seekers,’’ he said.“My record bears that out and Kate knows that.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>NO REPEAT OF TRAGEDIES</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ellen Whinnett   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE LABOR immigration spokesman Richard Marles has given an “absolute guarantee’’ Labor will not soften its <b>asylum</b> seeker policies and is committed to offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Declaring the party had learned “the hard way’’ after 1200 <b>asylum</b> seekers drowned at sea attempting to reach Australia during Labor’s years in government, Mr Marles vowed there would be no changes to the policy, before or after the election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in comments that appeared to be directed at both voters and the 21 Labor MPs and candidates who have spoken out against the party’s border protection policy, Mr Marles said: “There is absolutely no way we are about to shift from it, not in this election and not in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I can absolutely guarantee you that we are totally committed to the policy in its current form. No question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We did learn the hard way. We’ve been the first to acknowledge mistakes that we have made. You can’t go through the experience we did, in government, and seeing 1200 people perish on our border and not be utterly seared by that experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“None of us who went through that ever want to see that happen again. It must not be a part of Australia’s future.’’ The first two weeks of Labor’s election campaign have seen a string of candidates and sitting MPs exposed as being opposed to the party’s border protection policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles told the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun that the policy agreement reached at Labor’s national conference last year was not negotiable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said senior Left figures Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek, who both voted against the policy — Ms Plibersek through a proxy — had “only added clarity to the position”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Both of them were deeply moved about the tragedy that occurred at sea ... and both have been utterly committed from the moment that decision was made,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Since that decision has been made there is not a single, senior figure within the Labor Party who has done anything other than completely back that position in.’’ Mr Marles also dismissed those who ran simplistic social media campaigns against the policy, saying it “is not an issue that lends itself to a hashtag slogan’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked about Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who posted a photograph of himself on social media with <b>refugee</b> children and the hashtag #letthemstay, Mr Marles repeated: “This is a very complicated issue and it is certainly not an issue that lends itself to a hashtag slogan.’’ He acknowledged that a large number of candidates and some sitting MPs had publicly criticised the policy but said many of the criticisms had been found in social media posts from many years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have been through a very in-depth process, which culminated in our national conference decision. All of us knew that the decision we were making then represented the position that Labor would be taking into this election and that Labor would govern from, in the event we were elected. And that’s what we will absolutely do, unequivocally.’’ellen.whinnett@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Were Dutton’s <b>refugee</b> comments a dead cat thrown on the table or a freelance dog whistle?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tory Shepherd   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>709 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AFTER Immigration Minister Peter Dutton effectively declared refugees to be illiterate scabs in a clear dog whistle (ahem, bark), some punters started talking about the “dead cat” manoeuvre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The term is unrelated to the “dead cat bounce’’, a graphic term that describes the underwhelming recovery bounce when something (such as share prices, or popularity) has dropped from a great height.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The dead cat manoeuvre is described as the signature move of strategist Lynton Crosby – who worked for both John “we will decide” Howard and Tony “turn back the boats” Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">London Mayor Boris Johnson – who has also had the benefit of Crosby’s advice, described it thus: “Let us suppose that you are losing an argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as ‘throwing a dead cat on the table, mate’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is because there is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed or disgusted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout ‘Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!’ In other words they will be talking about the dead cat, the thing you want them to talk about, and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.” In the case of Mr Dutton, saying that a) <b>asylum</b> seekers will take Australian jobs, b) they will sign up for and languish on the dole and c) they will do both those things despite being illiterate and innumerate, you can see how the dead cat theory might get traction. It certainly helped drag debate onto a topic the Coalition sees as a strength – border security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They can get plenty of mileage painting Labor as planning to jump into sinful marriage with the Greens, to open the borders completely and welcome waves of terrorists in to build mosques in every suburb. (That is total hyperbole, by the way, before you write me an angry letter.) The truth is Labor is not in an easy position on <b>asylum</b> seekers. There is bipartisanship on the main elements of Australian policy; offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turnbacks. So Labor is not turning green. Their main gesture to the Left on the issue is ramping up the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers Australia settles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they may end up having to negotiate with the Greens, who will be delighted to wedge them on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor also has internal dissenters, people uncomfortable with the harsher aspects of <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy. It’s nowhere near a critical mass, but rot can set in around highly emotional disagreements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So was it a dead cat being thrown on the table or a freelance dog whistle? Cat or dog?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s another way of putting an oft-asked question: Conspiracy or cock up? Ministers, including the Prime Minister, immediately tried to turn the ugly duckling of Mr Dutton’s rant into a beautiful swan. They tried to magick his words, to pretend he was merely concerned about being properly able to support traumatised people arriving in a strange land. They neither agreed with his comments nor condemned them – although PM Malcolm Turnbull heaped on the praise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a cat theory, that was all part of the plan to keep attention on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the dog theory, Mr Dutton went a bit postal and they tried to hose it down without looking divided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Either way, the outcome is the same.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton has got his message through to the hardcore, to the conservatives worried the Coalition is limping to the Left, and to the racists out there who cling tightly to myths about the “Other’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He can keep them happy while the others whirr around him trying to give his message an acceptable context.Neither cat nor dog, but a cog in the machine, spinning out its message.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We’re living in crazy land</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHAEL MADIGAN  THE SKETCH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>325 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT HAS been suggested the length of this campaign has the capacity to affect the mental health of the nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It might be prudent, therefore, to subject ourselves to a brief psychological examination to ensure our coping mechanisms are in sound working order.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crucially, we should not feel alarmed if we find ourselves pondering alternative activities and unusual courses of actions to distract ourselves from the daily dose of politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Setting fire to your hair and requesting a powerfully built friend to attempt to put the blaze out with a cricket bat is just one surrogate activity that may occur to you.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moving the family to western Syria to relish that pure desert air may also present itself as an oddly alluring prospect as you gaze, yet again, at Malcolm Turnbull’s genial visage radiating out from your screen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wading on to the shoals off Christmas Island, seizing an incoming <b>refugee boat</b>, signing over your home and contents to the occupants and sailing towards Africa to request the Federal Republic of Somalia grant you <b>asylum</b> from Bill Shorten may seem a perfectly feasible way of resolving what, in your mind, may have become a cut and dried case of political persecution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do not be alarmed by these unsettling chimeras – they are merely mild hysteria brought on by mental fatigue and were foretold by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce (pictured).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Barnaby has demonstrated an unusual degree of sensitivity in past weeks. On radio this week he elegantly addressed unresolved issues of anger felt by Coalition voters who cannot reconcile themselves with the dumping of Tony Abbott for Malcolm Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was his psychological insight on the first day of the campaign which bordered on the clairvoyant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2016 federal election was going to include some challenging issues for our collective mental health, Barnaby warned.“It’s going to infuriate, bore and send people crazy.’’</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Boat</b> comments give Turnbull that sinking feeling</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Laura Tingle. Laura Tingle is The Australian Financial Review's political editor.   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra observed - Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Dutton's ill-informed remarks derailed the government's economic message.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anyone will tell you that "boats" is one of those sure-fire issues for the Coalition; that whenever things are going bad the spectre of "boats" will save the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So it is interesting that in an election campaign where, when you think about it, the entire drift in the political spectrum is to the left, the issue of boats largely sunk the week for the prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The skirmishing tactics of the Greens - attacking the spectacularly forgetful David Feeney in what is actually supposed to be Labor's safest seat; cheerfully offering to form government with Labor; promising to legislate to protect penalty rates when Labor won't - has become one of the early dynamics of this election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor, meantime, is unashamedly moving back to a more traditional platform of spending on government services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further along the pendulum, voters keep waiting for Malcolm Turnbull to show himself leading a Coalition that he is pushing or cajoling back from the right to the centre, where most voters believe he really lives, no matter what the evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">None of this is blatantly obvious all the time. But you could have been forgiven earlier this week for thinking we had time travelled back to the 1970s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not a sign of concern about the budget in sight. Labor was spending money in Adelaide "to replace car manufacturing jobs". The Prime Minister was in Perth proselytising on the benefits of Australian-made steel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we didn't have the boats "issue" in the 1970s, even if we did have the boats - from Vietnam at that time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has kept the boats issue alive at this campaign from the start, as a sort of relentless theme running in the background like irritating lift music: highlighting Labor "divisions" on the issue; warning that the previously mentioned spectre of a "Labor-Greens" government would see the flood gates opened once again to "the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps trying to be helpful, conservative commentator Paul Murray invited Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on to his Sky television program on Tuesday night to talk about the Greens proposal to lift the <b>refugee</b> intake to 50,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens, he opened, "are about to be locked in as the permanent balance-of-power party in the Upper House, so what they say is not ignorable". They had just "reaffirmed a commitment" to Australia taking 50,000 refugees every year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"To give you an idea of just how big that area is," Murray noted, "that's 5000 more than the entire population of Albury and 13,000 more than the entire population of Queanbeyan - this year, next year and every year after that - and don't think that, if it comes down to a power-sharing arrangement . . . that Bill Shorten won't be forced to move the number a whole lot higher than where we currently are."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton, the ex-Queensland copper and, with Julie Bishop, one of the few members of the Turnbull cabinet whose frontbench days stretch back well into the Howard government, seemed to sense an opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"For many people, they won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English, and this is a difficulty because the Greens are very close to the CFMEU, as obviously the Labor Party is, and their affiliations with the union movement obviously are well known.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Now, these people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that, and for many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare and the rest of it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"So, there would be a huge cost, and there's no sense in sugar-coating that, that's the scenario."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you see the footage of the interview, his comments look a little more hesitant than they sound in print.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And there are so many interwoven themes and leaps of logic to contemplate here, really, it is hard to know where to start.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the debacle for Malcolm Turnbull was that the comments were almost immediately treated as part of an officially sanctioned escalation of the <b>asylum</b> seeker issue as a "dog whistle" by the government at large, as opposed to a clunky stuff-up by a minister who - after all these years - should know better. Dutton's colleagues - and his Prime Minister - had little choice but to come in behind him, doing the "what the minister was really pointing to was" palaver.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you think this was all part of a cunning plan, think about how it derailed the government's economic message, which it thinks has been going well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it's not as if such a derailing was worth it to pick up some votes. Apart from the howling from the Left, Dutton's remarks offended all those immigrants - often conservative voters - who did come to Australia poor and illiterate and have made spectacular successes of their lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beyond the issue itself, it also once again stirred the pot for voters not even particularly exercised on the issue of boats about what Malcolm Turnbull actually stands for, and who he is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All in all a disaster, an own goal and finally, on Thursday, a complete overstretch when the Prime Minister claimed Labor was "demonising" Peter Dutton to cover its embarrassment about David Feeney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers continues to play out at a very unattractive level in the Australian psyche. Sometimes it is a little unclear how it will ever change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is, of course, a much bigger issue than one just about <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But even as it remains stuck in this space in Australia, the international debate about what to do about an unprecedented movement of displaced people around the globe is now rapidly moving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Academics like Alexander Betts at the <span class="companylink">University of Oxford</span> have been arguing the case for greater differentiation in the categorisation of refugees, noting that "the stark dichotomy between "<b>refugee</b>" and "economic migrant" masks a growing trend: that many people coming fall between those two extremes".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We also too easily see refugees as a drain despite 70 years of history and not as a potential investment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We talk about the impact of the resources boom in the past decade, but not the impact on economic growth of several million people arriving here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems unlikely that the <b>boat</b> debate is going to go anywhere subtle between now and July 2. However, whoever wins government, there are signs the debate in the rest of the world has started to move, potentially offering us a way out of our swamped domestic debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the meantime, Peter Dutton has proved that there are limits to even the most certain of sure things in politics.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Our successful multicultural society is built on secure borders</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Malcolm Turnbull   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I rejoice in the vibrant diversity of our migrant nation. I'm proud to lead a country that welcomes refugees from shattered, war-torn corners of the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And barely a day goes past when I don't celebrate that we are the most successful and harmonious multicultural nation in the world.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we cannot be under any illusions about what our multicultural success is built upon. The reason Australians welcome high levels of immigration - the highest since the early postwar period - is that we have confidence that our government is in control of our immigration program, deciding who can come here and ensuring that when they do they receive the support needed to integrate into Australian societies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We welcome 13,750 refugees a year - the world's third largest permanent <b>refugee</b> resettlement program in proportionate terms - because our borders are secure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Strong borders are the foundation of our high-immigration multicultural success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not a hypothetical proposition. We've seen elsewhere what happens when nations lose control of their borders and fail to invest in the integration of migrants who arrive. We only have to look at recent events in Europe, where internal borders are non-existent and external borders are difficult to manage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And tragically, in our own country, we only have to look to the previous Labor government when a collapse of border security emboldened 50,000 individuals to entrust their lives to people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our opponents in the Labor Party and the Greens who promote more open borders cannot evade the awful consequences of the last time they tried this experiment. More than 1200 people drowned at sea. And they are the ones we know about.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I was opposition leader I begged Kevin Rudd not to abandon the Howard government's border protection policy. But he did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Kevin Rudd's party did not have a commitment to strong borders any more than Bill Shorten's party does today. This fundamental problem is on display as a divided Labor Party is again drawn towards a partnership with the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But those who trade in gesture politics, who claim a monopoly on empathy, have to face the natural consequences of the soft border policies they propose. There is nothing generous about policies that lead families to drown at sea. There is nothing humane about gestures that lead to young women, men and their children being placed in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Howard government lost office in 2007 there was not one single child in detention. Within five years, the number of children who arrived by <b>boat</b> in detention peaked at nearly 2000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, after three years of a Coalition government, that number is zero. There has not been a single unauthorised <b>asylum</b> seeker vessel arrive for more than 660 days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our borders are secure, the people smugglers have been thwarted and the families on whom they prey are not getting on leaky boats to come to Australia in what was a perilous and often fatal venture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has settled more than 850,000 refugees since World War II. They and their offspring have helped make us what we are. We cannot imagine modern Australia without their contribution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But our <b>refugee</b> programs have not succeeded by accident. We make considerable investments in settlement services - teaching English and helping bridge what, for many, is a very difficult transition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are able to increase our annual <b>refugee</b> intake from 13,750 up to 18,750 by 2019 because we know we can support those additional numbers and just as importantly the community believes we can too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And we are welcoming another 12,000 from the Syrian conflict zone, particularly persecuted minorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The observation by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton, that many refugees lack English skills and some lack literacy even in their own language is a statement of fact.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a reminder that having welcomed people to Australia we must ensure they have the support and the training to be able to succeed in our society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These settlement services are costly, which we do not begrudge. But we do believe our program - with the calibrated increases that we propose - is the right size and is at a level we can support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Secure borders and a well-managed migration system are the bedrock of confidence on which our successful multicultural society is built.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten’s boatload of pain gets worse</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A TOTAL of 30 Labor candidates and MPs are now on the record as opposing their party’s policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers and <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the number will only rise.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tally of Labor candidates who have already voiced their concerns now equals more than half of Labor leader Bill Shorten’s current federal caucus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph has uncovered a further three NSW Labor candidates who have voiced intense opposition to the policy established by Mr Shorten to adopt the government’s <b>boat</b> turn-back strategy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s candidate for Berowra, Josh Andrews, raised the spectre of reopening detention centres across the country, telling a local newspaper just last week that offshore processing was an abuse of human rights. He said all ­arrivals should be brought to the ­mainland for processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s candidate for Gilmore, Fiona Phillips, has said the majority of ALP members were opposed to mandatory detention. She is on the record ­saying: “The ALP has built itself on the traditions of justice and fairness for all. These traditions are being shattered by the ALP parliamentary members’ adoption of, and support for, punitive <b>asylum</b> seeker policies.” And Chris Gambian, the candidate for the marginal Sydney seat of Banks, wrote in 2010 to then Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accusing the government of “using refugees as pawns in an election game”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spent part of yesterday ­defending Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who said dramatically increasing Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake would cost local jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also said “many” wouldn’t be “numerate or literate in their own ­language, let alone English”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said Mr Dutton was an “outstanding” minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For more than 600 days there has not been one successful people smuggler operation bringing unauthorised arrivals to Australia,” Mr Turnbull said from Townsville.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph revealed ­yesterday how the Labor candidate for Bradfield in Sydney’s north, Katie Gompertz, had railed against her party’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She has also used social media to label the previous Labor government “liars”. Ms Gompertz used her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page to speak out against the turn-back policy that has stopped the people-smuggler boats and saved countless thousands of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Australian government has a disastrous obsession with stopping the boats,” she wrote.In a statement issued through ­campaign headquarters she claimed: “In ­relation to <b>asylum</b> seekers, I fully support the Labor policy.”</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHERE LABOR CANDIDATES AND MPS ARE DEFYING BILL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A TOTAL of 30 Labor candidates and MPs are now on the record as opposing their party’s policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers and <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the number will only rise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tally of Labor candidates who have already voiced their concerns now equals more than half of Labor leader Bill Shorten’s current federal caucus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph has uncovered a further three NSW Labor candidates who have voiced intense opposition to the policy established by Mr Shorten to adopt the government’s <b>boat</b> turn-back strategy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s candidate for Berowra, Josh Andrews, raised the spectre of reopening detention centres across the country, telling a local newspaper just last week that offshore processing was an abuse of human rights. He said all ­arrivals should be brought to the ­mainland for processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s candidate for Gilmore, Fiona Phillips, has said the majority of ALP members were opposed to mandatory detention. She is on the record ­saying: “The ALP has built itself on the traditions of justice and fairness for all. These traditions are being shattered by the ALP parliamentary members’ adoption of, and support for, punitive <b>asylum</b> seeker policies.” And Chris Gambian, the candidate for the marginal Sydney seat of Banks, wrote in 2010 to then Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accusing the government of “using refugees as pawns in an election game”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spent part of yesterday ­defending Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who said dramatically increasing Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake would cost local jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also said “many” wouldn’t be “numerate or literate in their own ­language, let alone English”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said Mr Dutton was an “outstanding” minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For more than 600 days there has not been one successful people smuggler operation bringing unauthorised arrivals to Australia,” Mr Turnbull said from Townsville.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph revealed ­yesterday how the Labor candidate for Bradfield in Sydney’s north, Katie Gompertz, had railed against her party’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She has also used social media to label the previous Labor government “liars”. Ms Gompertz used her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page to speak out against the turn-back policy that has stopped the people-smuggler boats and saved countless thousands of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Australian government has a disastrous obsession with stopping the boats,” she wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a statement issued through ­campaign headquarters she claimed: “In ­relation to <b>asylum</b> seekers, I fully support the Labor policy.”Editorial Page 24</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tent cities to solve house price crisis</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>608 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Housing affordability is, of course, a hot issue in the federal election campaign... so we thought we’d weigh into it. Why not, heh?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We noted that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the ABC recently that parents should help buy their kids a house.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You should shell out for them, you should support them,” he told the ABC’s John Faine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What a great idea Malcolm – a handout from the folks. Funnily enough, it doesn’t quite fit the Liberals’ philosophy of self reliance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thing is, quite a few Hunter parents probably can’t afford to help their kids out because they’re too busy paying off massive mortgages and being a wage slave. Besides, there is a thing known as “gleefully spending the inheritance”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Topics couldn’t help but notice that Labor leader Bill Shorten’s image started to improve after he announced his party’s policy to restrict negative gearing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here’s Shorten a while back: “Unlike the Liberal Party, who thinks that the Australian dream is to negatively gear your seventh house, we think the Australian dream is to be able to afford to buy your first house”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We heard a banker say the other day that restrictions on negative gearing were garbage. Anyone who lives in Australia should be able to afford a property if they work hard, he reckoned. Thing is, it’s easy to say that when you’re on $150,000 a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Topics is a tad worried about our youngsters. How are they going to afford a house? Don’t worry though, we have a great idea. Tents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps Malcolm and his gang can help create some new tent cities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They’ll be a bit like <b>refugee</b> camps. Discrimination won’t be allowed. All races will be admitted entry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If we put the tents near a river or lake, we could even call the inhabitants <b>boat</b> people. How about a city of <b>boat</b> people living lakeside and on waterfronts in Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens or alongside the Hunter River?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We reckon the youngsters will love living in tents. It’ll be like a holiday all-year round.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Topics’ head was turned recently when we spotted some plovers inhabiting a roundabout on the Central Coast. A quick online search showed this wasn’t an isolated incident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Maitland Mercury carried a story last October that a plover had been “ripped to pieces on her nest with her chicks in Rutherford”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Roads and Maritime Services</span> had told maintenance crews that deal with the upkeep of roundabouts on the New England Highway to check for animals ahead of work “after the ­unfortunate incident with a nest” along the busy road.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apparently, plovers are notorious for occupying unusual places. Perhaps nesting on a roundabout is a smart move. All the traffic might just keep those dogs, foxes and cats at bay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experts say it’s illegal to harass a plover or remove a bird from its nesting place ­without a permit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The plovers, though, are free to swoop humans at will and screech like a chimpanzee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Topics likes to keep up with fashion. As such, we bought a new shirt recently. When we arrived back home at the Topics’ tent, we realised the shirt looked like a tea towel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We were chatting about this turn of events at Topics headquarters, when a colleague mentioned there were online sites dedicated to women’s clothing that match things like furniture, curtains, carpet and rugs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For anyone interested in this urban camouflage phenomenon, check out pages online titled “People Who Accidentally Dressed Like Their Surroundings”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i9211 : Waste Management/Recycling Services | ibcs : Business/Consumer Services | iewm : Environment/Waste Management</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>e1121 : Home Sales/Housing Affordability | emhpr : Housing Prices | gpol : Domestic Politics | e11 : Economic Performance/Indicators | ecat : Economic News | ereal : Real Estate Markets | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NEHR000020160519ec5j0000q</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160518ec5j0005l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull leaves Shorten all at sea over boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DENNIS SHANAHAN POLITICAL EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>482 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull has captured the necessary spirit on <b>asylum</b>-seekers for a Coalition leader and confronted suggestions that he is “soft on boats”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was no lawyerly dissembling for the Prime Minister yesterday; no awkward body language nor any weasel words as he not only defended Peter ­Dutton’s unvarnished reality about the financial cost of taking refugees, but also refined and ­extended the argument.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull heartily embraced the Immigration Minister’s “brutal” and “no sugar-coated” view of ­illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals and the cost of caring for refugees after Bill ­Shorten tried to turn border protection into a positive for Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor hopes to prove Turnbull inconsistent and insincere on ­social issues he once supported. But every day the main topic turns to illegal <b>boat</b> ­arrivals, offshore processing, ­detention centres or the cost of housing ­refugees is ­another lost day for the ALP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Labor and the Opposition Leader went out hard and early, with the Greens, hoping to get Turnbull to distance himself from Dutton’s “xenophobic” remarks about ­illiterate and innumerate refugees costing billions in care.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten looked sharp in his ­attack, but Turnbull looked ­sharper and more committed in ­Dutton’s defence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull didn’t hesitate to ­endorse Dutton’s ­remarks and facts, although his ­argument was more sophisticated, but no less critical of Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There have been differences between the lawyer Turnbull and policeman Dutton before, but there were none yesterday as they acted in concert to hammer home the history of Labor failure on ­illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals, deaths at sea, child detention, uncontrolled borders and, finally, the budgetary cost of all of this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After saying there was no sense in “sugar coating” the fact that there was a cost to compassionately caring for refugees, Dutton costed the Greens’ policy of 50,000 refugees a year at $7 billion. Turnbull passionately agreed refugees from war-torn zones would include those who could not read or write — even in their own language — and said “we invest an enormous amount of money into settlement services” for the refugees who come to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We don’t begrudge the money, but it’s important to get it right,” he said. Then Turnbull combined into a toxic cocktail for the ALP its history on border protection, pointing to the deep divisions within Labor over offshore processing, linking them to “gesture politics” with the Greens and highlighting the huge financial cost of a lack of border control or immigration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Declaring Dutton an “outstanding Immigration Minister”, Turnbull ensured Labor’s hopes of division and any suggestion he was “soft on boats” were both dashed for another day of campaigning when the subject was all on the government’s side.And Dutton will happily be called a xenophobe every day of the election campaign if it means the focus is on boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160518ec5j0005l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020160518ec5j0002v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Gulag gibe sinks Labor man</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Butterly and Sophie Morris </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>280 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has been left scrambling to find a new candidate for the northern suburbs seat of Moore after the old one used <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> to blast immigration camps as “gulags”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WA Labor confirmed yesterday small businessman David Leith was no longer the party’s candidate for the seat, saying he had pulled out six weeks ago for personal reasons. The party also deleted Mr Leith’s <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> account and removed all his links to the ALP’s WA Federal election campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, in <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> posts in June Mr Leith launched a furious attack on the Gov-ernment’s policy of offshore detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Refugees are held in detention for what are essentially political reasons — for demon-stration or exemplary purposes — which means Australia is possibly the only state to hold civilians, including children, as political hostages,” he said on the social media site.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It also means that Australian immigration facilities are essentially a gulag for the arbitrary incarceration of non-citizens who have committed no crime, whose only error has been to fall into the hands of the Australian authorities.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Leith also used the post to show he had signed an online petition supporting Human Rights Council head Gillian Triggs, who at the time was embroiled in a battle with the Abbott government over a controversial report on immigration detention. Malcolm Turnbull’s Government is anxious to expose Labor divisions on <b>asylum</b>. The Government shifted the election debate to border protection this week, with the Prime Minister visiting a patrol <b>boat</b> base in Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moore is a safe coalition seat with Ian Goodenough holding a 12.4 per cent margin.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>c16 : Bankruptcy | csmlbs : Small/Medium Businesses | gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | cactio : Corporate Actions | ccat : Corporate/Industrial News | ccfd : Corporate Financial Difficulty | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter | nfcpin : C&E Industry News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020160518ec5j0002v</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160518ec5j0003l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>OVERREACTION A REMINDER OF SORRY BORDER HISTORY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny Associate Editor   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1026 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s rush of blood over Peter Dutton’s <b>refugee</b> comments will jog a few memories</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like a nasty partner in a dysfunctional relationship, the Labor Party seeks to insult and demean the people it claims to love. Vote for us, says Labor, because we think you are a narrow-minded, xenophobic bunch of gullible rednecks. It was at it again in yesterday’s almost maniacal over-reaction to Peter Dutton’s comments about refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border protection is the trigger for Labor and, no matter all the mistakes and lessons of the past 15 years, it cannot help itself. On this issue, the wild emotion kicks in, overriding carefully considered policy changes, and the default position comes out. It is a position that is not only at odds with the facts but is rooted in an unreasonable, untrue and dismal assessment of voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor shouts “dog whistle” or talks of “scaremongering” every time the Coalition says something firm or uncomfortable about border protection policy. Labor talks of “fear campaigns” and “xenophobia” and even the “demonising” of refugees. The subtext is clear. We have heard it since Tampa: the Coalition is heartless and cruel on border protection, and is motivated by a political dividend from scaring a racist and easily manipulated electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Labor MP Steve Gibbons encapsulated this attitude best on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> last year: “The turn-back-the-boats policy will be driven by those gutless western suburbs MPs who let rednecks determine Labor policy!” But yesterday, as ever, much of the media fell into line — as it has through all of Labor’s twists and turns on border protection. “We’re yet to see how the scare works in this election campaign now that it has escalated from ‘dog whistle’ to ‘foghorn’,’’ Lenore Taylor wrote in The Guardian Australia in a typical example.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You could swear it was 2001. Remember, most of the press gallery opposed the Pacific Solution, backed Labor’s scrapping of it, then when boats started again said they couldn’t be stopped, then said turnbacks wouldn’t work, then praised Labor’s turnaround and now they are back on board for the shrill complaints. Talk about agile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pure silliness of the “dog whistle” argument is surely manifest. Federal politics is won from the centre, and the electorate generally has made wise decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the absurdity of this kneejerk criticism in 2016 takes the idiocy to a new level. There cannot be a person of functioning intelligence in this country who is not aware that an experiment was conducted. Under Kevin Rudd in 2008 the tough measures were abandoned. Compassion ruled. And chaos, trauma and tragedy ensued.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Coalition railed against this irresponsibility all along, it was, in the end, Labor that relented. Julia Gillard and Rudd reopened Nauru and Manus Island in desperate, ill-conceived and belated moves to stem the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seekers in the lead-up to the 2013 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then last year, among stupendous levels of theatre and emotional grandstanding, Labor finally put practical sense above moral and political vanity by voting at its national conference to adopt <b>boat</b> turnbacks. This often has been portrayed as a transactional political deal — a cynical tidy-up — and, given what we saw yesterday, perhaps that is true.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But let me express what that backflip should mean. It should mean that Labor accepts it was wrong on border protection all along; that tough measures are needed to prevent illegal people-smugglers from taking advantage of desperate people and putting their lives at risk as they destroy the integrity of our immigration system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, it should mean Labor accepts most Australian voters were right. While Labor accused voters of being played for fools by the evil “dog whistling” of people such as John Howard and Philip Ruddock (and later Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison), it was the mainstream voters of the nation who understood this issue earlier and more clearly than Labor. Voters innately understood that to preserve a tolerant multicultural society, high immigration levels and generous humanitarian program, we needed an orderly system, controlled not by people-smugglers but the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Labor was prepared to outsource our immigration program to the people-smugglers, voters preferred a contract with government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead of being contrite on this issue — perhaps joining Dutton in pointing out the folly of the Greens’ approach — and recognising that sensible mainstream voters comprehend all of this, Labor has doubled down on the insults. It says the government is trying to appeal to voters’ darker angels again. This tells us Labor has learned little, if anything, on this topic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So what did the Immigration Minister say that Bill Shorten says insulted refugees?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said suddenly increasing our humanitarian intake from 13,750 to 50,000 would be irresponsible. He said many refugees were not even literate or numerate in their own languages, let alone English. He pointed out they would add to the pool of unemployed and unskilled labour that was dependent on welfare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Blunt and confronting as his words were, they were factual. An <span class="companylink">Australian Institute of Family Studies</span> earlier this year found that among adult refugees resettled here, more than 10 per cent of the men and almost 20 per cent of the women had not attended school. A further 34 per cent had less than 10 years of schooling, almost half had never undertaken paid work and a quarter had long-term illnesses or disabilities. Only 7 per cent had worked in the previous week. This is not to insult refugees but to be frank about the challenges they face. Voters know this. And strange as it may seem, being over the age of 18, they generally like to be treated like adults.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems Labor may have deliberately stoked this fire to distract from the David Feeney forgotten house scandal. If so, it was a grave miscalculation.Shorten needs to convince the electorate he can be trusted to keep our borders secure. That was always going to be difficult but will be nigh on impossible after yesterday’s rush of blood.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shrill reaction on refugees exposes Labor’s weakness</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>736 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Resettlement issues cannot be ignored in <b>asylum</b> debate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The point a shrill Labor Party seemed to be making yesterday was that Immigration Minister Peter Dutton should not be allowed to speak the truth. To highlight the economic and social risks in increasing Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake from 13,750 people to 27,000 (as Labor proposes) or 50,000 (as the Greens propose) is apparently to “demonise” refugees. This is nonsense. Mr Dutton pointed out on Sky News’ Paul Murray Live that many refugees “won’t be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English”, which is a sad fact — but a fact all the same. As Mr Dutton went on to say, this makes resettlement difficult and costly.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taxpayers provide welfare and support, while refugees face tough competition for work in an already crowded unskilled labour pool. None of this is to begrudge the effort; our nation is founded on people making that difficult transition. But, presented with the Greens’ unrealistic policies, Mr Dutton was right to draw attention to its drawbacks. If he erred, it was to suggest refugees might take work from those already here because, on the available data, it is the refugees who are most likely to be jobless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Research released in January by the <span class="companylink">Australian Institute of Family Studies</span> underscored the Immigration Minister’s warning. It tracked the progress of a sample of people settled under the humanitarian program. The study found almost one in five of the women and more than one in 10 of the men had never attended school. A further 34 per cent had less than 10 years’ schooling. Another government study found 46 per cent had never undertaken paid work and 25 per cent had long-term illnesses or disabilities. In the AIFS survey, the overwhelming majority of refugees were studying, including English classes, but only 7 per cent had worked in the previous week. This report shows the strains Mr Dutton mentioned are very real. It said the annual welfare bill at current intake levels was about $100 million. The government says the Greens’ policy would add costs of $7 billion to the budget over the forward estimates while Labor’s would add $2.3bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The guiding principle of this newspaper is to foster sensible debate about those issues crucial to our national development, cohesion and prosperity. Sometimes progress in the nation’s capacity for constructive debate is enormously slow or even imperceptible. No issue demonstrates this more bleakly than border protection. For the sixth federal election in succession the debate over people-smuggling and the arrival of <b>asylum</b>-seekers by <b>boat</b> has arisen in heated and emotive terms. For the sixth election in succession the Labor Party is determined to be critical of Coalition policies while also seeking to emulate them. During the past 1½ decades we have twice seen <b>boat</b> arrivals build to high levels, and twice seen the Coalition stem the flow with tough policies including offshore processing, temporary protection visas and <b>boat</b> turnbacks. In 2007 Labor promised it would keep the borders secure but when it scrapped these policies the full trauma was visited on our shores again. More than 50,000 people arrived in three years and 1200 died at sea. These are the facts. This is the history.Yet at this election Labor is again talking from both sides of its mouth. Bill Shorten says he will be as successful as the Coalition has been at keeping the people-smugglers at bay. But Labor says it will do this while refusing to use TPVs and demonstrating a more “compassionate” response. It has not detailed how this compassion would be displayed. More than 20 of its MPs and candidates have expressed misgivings about its border policies, raising serious doubts about how much resolve a Labor cabinet could display on <b>boat</b> turnbacks or offshore processing. Labor wildly overreacted to Mr Dutton’s remarks, calling them offensive and insulting, and dubbing him xenophobic. This suggests Labor is incapable of discussing this issue without emotive and partisan invective. Malcolm Turnbull was right to strongly back his minister and stress how our nation’s success has been built on generous and orderly migration. He must not waver in his stand on this issue. Australia has been through the trauma, tragedy and cost of soft borders twice before — a third time is inconceivable.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Heath Aston   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>464 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A005</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nabi Baqiri in the Shepparton orchard where he employs scores of refugees and backpackers. "Refugees find it easy to get jobs here. If you don't understand English you can still work," he said. No English, no problem: farmer picks fight with Dutton By Heath Aston</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nabi Baqiri, an Afghan granted <b>asylum</b> in 2004, said refugees were hard workers and formed the backbone of the fruit-picking workforce around Shepparton in Victoria, along with Pacific Islanders and backpackers. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> contacted MrBaqiri to respond to comments by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton that a higher intake of refugees would result in new arrivals both "taking Australian jobs" and more</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">people "languishing on the dole". "They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English," Mr Dutton said. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten branded the comments "deeply- divisive and offensive ... that Pauline Hanson would have been proud to make". Mr Baqiri said others were better qualified to comment on politics but said he does not believe refugees aim to stay on welfare payments. "When they come here they have to work hard, otherwise they won't be able to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">afford a house and do the things they want to do for their families," he said. Mr Baqiri's experience is that refugees do not take jobs away from Australians, saying anyone willing to pick fruit around Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley can get work. "Refugees find it easy to get jobs here. If you don't understand English you can still work," he said. National Party leader Barnaby Joyce has railed against the so-called "backpacker tax" because it would leave some farmers without fruit pickers. The tax was shelved this</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">week by the Coalition. In a profile of Mr Baqiri published by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> in February, he revealed he remains illiterate despite having made himself a multi-millionaire through hard work at the 182-hectare Kaarimba orchard that he co-owns with business partner Gerard Alampi. They employ up to 40 pickers at a time, depending on the season, and currently have two refugees working in their cherry orchards. He was born in Saibaghal, in the province of Uruzgan, central</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Afghanistan, before crossing the border into Pakistan as a 13-year-old. He went on to start a successful business in Quetta but took his wife and three children to Indonesia when his neighbour was executed in 2001. The family paid a people smuggler and spent 11 days at sea on a crude wooden fishing <b>boat</b> that burst into flames in Australian waters. They spent three years on Nauru before being granted <b>asylum</b>. On Wednesday, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said Mr Dutton's comments would be met with disgust.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160518ec5j0001m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020160518ec5j0003q" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM says Dutton 'outstanding'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Koziol, Mark Kenny   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>680 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Election 2016- Turnbull rallies to minister's defence</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has labelled Peter Dutton "outstanding" after his Immigration Minister drew fire for claiming an expanded humanitarian intake of refugees would see many "illiterate and innumerate" refugees living on welfare, and benefiting from Medicare while taking Australian jobs.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The comments, seen by many as a cynical attempt by the Coalition to ramp up public anxiety about <b>boat</b> arrivals, touched off a storm with both left-of-centre parties condemning the government in the strongest terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that," Mr Dutton had said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dubbing Mr Dutton "an outstanding Immigration Minister", the Prime Minister said Australia was one of the most generous countries in the world when it came to <b>refugee</b> resettlement and took its responsibilities seriously.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he sought to put Mr Dutton's comments in context by explaining that large numbers of refugees came from war-torn countries, and that this was to be met with compassion, not intolerance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Large percentages of them have no English skills at all, many of them are illiterate in their own language, many of them have not completed high school," Mr Turnbull said. "That's no fault of theirs. That's why we're reaching out to help them with compassion. That is not a basis for criticising them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What it is, as Peter [Dutton] has identified, is a basis for us taking our responsibility seriously and ensuring that we take into Australia the number of refugees that we can effectively settle."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> groups pointed to Treasury evidence that migrants, including refugees, added more to the economy than they cost, even if there were initial costs associated with resettlement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Power, from the <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span>, said the suggestion of refugees simultaneously taking jobs while also being "illiterate and innumerate" was nonsense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Mr Dutton's comments are not only incoherent, they contravene the evidence substantiated by the contributions of hundreds of thousands of refugees who have contributed to our country," he said, while describing humanitarian migrants as "a politically defenceless section of Australian society".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The fact that this political attack is coming from the minister responsible for Australia's <b>refugee</b> program makes it even more offensive."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister said that, unlike many other countries, Australia invested hundreds of millions of dollars in <b>refugee</b> settlement and support services. "Many countries in the world accept many refugees into their countries and effectively forget them. We don't."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said Labor's intention to double the humanitarian intake of refugees would come with a price tag, likely in the billions of dollars, that the opposition had not costed. "Labor's approach to immigration is one of gesture politics," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent days, Mr Turnbull and senior ministers have ramped up their rhetoric on <b>asylum</b> seekers. On Tuesday, the Prime Minister toured an Australian Border Force patrol vessel docked in Darwin, and delivered his strongest attack to date on Labor's border protection record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then on Tuesday night, Mr Dutton told Sky News many refugees were not literate or numerate. "These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that, and for many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare and the rest of it," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor, the Greens and <b>refugee</b> advocates have branded those remarks offensive and incorrect. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said they were comments that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson "would be proud to make".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Foreign Minister Julie Bishop endorsed Mr Dutton's comments on Wednesday morning, saying it was "self-evident" that resettling refugees was expensive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked whether he would want a divisive border protection debate to run through the campaign, Mr Turnbull repeated sentiments he expressed on Tuesday that "border protection and immigration are and always have been key political issues".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, when asked directly, he would not repeat or echo Mr Dutton's suggestion that refugees "would be taking Australian jobs".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020160518ec5j0003q</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160518ec5j0004v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Plumbing the depths on people seeking <b>asylum</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>613 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cynicism and dishonesty with which the Coalition government is seeking to create and fan irrational fears about people seeking <b>asylum</b> is as shameful as it is absurd.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the day Malcolm Turnbull's disapproval rating eclipsed his approval rating for the first time since he snatched the prime ministership and declared he would lead by treating citizens as intelligent and mature, he and some of his most senior colleagues resorted to the opposite.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their attempt on Wednesday to demonise some of the world's most vulnerable people as a simultaneous threat to Australian jobs and a potentially dreadful drain on the welfare system suggests electoral panic. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, Mr Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop not only insulted the integrity and dignity of people fleeing persecution, war, and worse, but the intelligence and decency of Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consider these words from Mr Dutton, in response to a suggestion from the Greens that, at a time when there are more displaced people in the world - 60 million - than at any time since the Second World War, Australia should boost its humanitarian intake. "These people would be taking Australian jobs ... for the many who would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare so there would be huge cost and there's no sense in sugar-coating that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bishop backed him, reiterating the financial argument, while Mr Turnbull lauded his minister and in effect claimed that Australia's treatment of people seeking <b>asylum</b> was beyond reproach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Age has long and consistently argued the treatment of such people by recent Coalition and Labor governments has been a disgrace. We understand the issues are complex, and that were there a ready solution, it would have been evident long ago. But cruelly placing people in grim offshore detention centres where they suffer awful health problems, both physical and mental, is wrong, and lowers the standing of our nation. We believe our government should process people onshore, in the community, and lead in the creation of an enhanced regional and international solution with sufficient resources to process refugees so that they do not take the dire risk of getting on people-smuggler boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The appalling status quo is clearly unsustainable, as Mr Turnbull and his team must surely be aware, as should Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and his treasury spokesman Chris Bowen, a former immigration minister, who in rushing to denigrate Mr Dutton merely looked hypocritical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor governments have been as deplorable as the Coalition. It was Kevin Rudd who led a team including Mr Shorten and Mr Bowen to the 2013 election with the draconian policy that not only would anyone who arrived by <b>boat</b> seeking <b>asylum</b> - a legal act despite dissembling to the contrary - be kept in mandatory offshore detention, they would never be allowed to settle in Australia, even if found to be genuine refugees. As many as 90 per cent of people who arrive by <b>boat</b> seeking safety are genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition's cost argument is risible. It costs taxpayers $400,000 a year to keep someone in offshore detention. That's a total of about $3.5 billion a year, four times what is spent on Indigenous health and one of the fastest-growing items in recent fiscal history. Processing <b>asylum</b> seekers in the community costs $12,000 a year. That would free up ample money to not only assimilate, employ and tax arrivals and establish a regional queue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians should be dismayed by the waste and inhumanity that continues in their name, and demand honesty and honour from candidates. Enough is enough.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Docks, tinnies on agenda as Turnbull sticks with Dutton</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Primrose Riordan   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">#afronthetrail - Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coalition leaders visited two ports on Wednesday to highlight the <b>asylum</b> seekers issue, concerned people aren't tuning in to the campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, watching the Prime Minister making his way through a shipyard being followed by cameramen getting video "grabs", one dock worker quipped: "The only thing I want to grab is a tinny on the way home."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's latest unsubtle intervention on refugees - saying a greater intake would threaten Aussie jobs - worked, and turned back every other item on Wednesday's campaign agenda somewhere north of Sri Lanka.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The chaos began in far north Queensland when a reporter asked if Malcolm Turnbull would be slapping down his minister for the <b>refugee</b> comments - which he declined to do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mics were then shoved under Senator Ian Macdonald. Yet to read whether Mr Dutton was referring to refugees coming to Australia via the <span class="companylink">UN</span> or by <b>boat</b>, the senator jumped behind the minister and said his comments were "matters of fact".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite attempts by Mr Turnbull to focus on questions of the Coalition contributing $150 million towards the Townsville Eastern Access Rail Corridor that local business has been calling for since 2006, he was probed repeatedly on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A little reframing was needed but he stood by his immigration minister. Mr Dutton brought up migrant literacy to explain why Australia needed to take its resettlement responsibilities seriously, he said. Mr Dutton was "right to draw attention" to the significant financial investment Australia makes in resettling refugees, he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As Peter was saying earlier today, many of them come to Australia from shattered areas of the world ... Many of them are illiterate in their own language. Many haven't completed high school. That is no fault of theirs."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull was careful not to allow his local members, Ewen Jones, known for supporting the <b>refugee</b> program, and George Christensen, opposed to taking any Syrian refugees in his electorate, appear in front of a television camera.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten accused Mr Turnbull of feeding the lines to Mr Dutton, and said they were sentiments that would make Pauline Hanson proud.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberals painted Labor as divided, talking up the number of candidates who have expressed concerns about the treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers in detention.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020160518ec5j00019</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020160517ec5i00039" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ship a-coy: The official logo you weren't supposed to see</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Koziol Political reporter </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>478 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As far as campaign stunts go, it doesn't get more blatantly political than a visit to an Australian Border Force patrol <b>boat</b>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But reporters arriving to the carefully staged event on Tuesday were warned not to photograph Malcolm Turnbull alongside the Border Force's logo, which proudly adorned the Cape Jervis docked in Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Border Force was keen to avoid being politicised, the PM's staffers explained, even as cameras were being assembled right behind them for a press conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the seepage of politics proved unstoppable. Following a tour of the Cape Jervis, Mr Turnbull used the occasion to launch his strongest attack to date on Labor's <b>asylum</b> seeker credentials.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The protection of Australia's borders is a political issue. We should not be naive about this," he said. "No matter how professional, no matter how capable, courageous and committed the Border Force is, everything depends on strong leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Labor cannot deliver that. [Bill] Shorten cannot deliver that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent weeks, the Labor leader has had to contend with numerous candidates and retiring MPs distancing themselves from Labor's support for offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said those individuals represented "just the tip of the iceberg" of dissent within Labor's ranks, and accused them of "crab-walking away" from strong border protection "in the direction of the Greens".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the second day in a row the Prime Minister has used a press conference to accuse Labor of cosying up to the Greens in case it needed their support to form a minority government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Regardless of what they say before the election, we know from the experience of Kevin Rudd 's government that they will not perform, that they will fail, that they lack the conviction to be strong," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he was coy when asked about the photo-that-must-not-be-taken, insisting there had been "ample opportunity" to photograph him as he walked about the Border Force vessel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Border Force, essentially a rebranding of customs and immigration forces under former prime minister Tony Abbott , has attracted its share of controversy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In August last year, it announced an operation to randomly check people's visas in Melbourne's CBD. It spawned spontaneous protests and was cancelled just hours later, but not before being branded a "border farce". And little is known about the Border Force's activities at sea, because the government does not comment on what it dubs "operational matters". Aboard the Cape Jervis on Tuesday, a crew member revealed operatives had previously been involved in about four or five jobs during each 28-day mission, including intercepting <b>asylum</b> seeker boats or illegal Indonesian fishing vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But work had been quieter recently, he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gdip : International Relations | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020160517ec5i00039</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020160517ec5i00039" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM pans Labor’s borders division</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Tillett and Phoebe Wearne </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>392 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both major parties have intensified their negative campaigns, with Malcolm Turnbull launching his strongest attack yet on the Opposition over <b>boat</b> people and Bill Shorten accusing the Prime Minister of “telling lies”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has also taken aim at Mr Turnbull for repeatedly shielding candidates from media scrutiny after Tony Abbott ’s former chief of staff turned TV pundit Peta Credlin observed that it was turning into a “pattern” for Mr Turnbull to hold news conferences by himself.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Campaigning in Darwin, Mr Turnbull channelled former prime minister John Howard in exploiting Labor’s divisions over <b>asylum</b> seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He toured the Australian Border Force’s Cape Jervis patrol <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said at least 25 Labor MPs or candidates were at odds with the party’s policy for a harder line on <b>asylum</b> seekers. He said Mr Shorten could not deliver the conviction and commitment to keep the border secure and deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek was trying to “crab-walk” towards the Greens on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is fundamental to our multicultural society ... that we, the Australian people, through its government is able to determine who comes to Australia,” Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The language echoed Mr Howard’s 2001 campaign declaration “we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said Kevin Rudd had made similar promises at the 2007 election as Mr Shorten now to be tough on boats, but “the Labor Party buckled, they were weak”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has run a predominantly positive campaign so far, but the Opposition Leader hit back at Liberal Party attempts to undermine the ALP at a press conference in Adelaide yesterday. Mr Shorten, who was announcing a $500 million commitment to Adelaide’s tram network at a manufacturing business in Wingfield, accused Mr Turnbull of making dishonest comments about Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Mr Turnbull had “clearly decided” to say as often as possible that Labor would not tackle people smugglers and would form a coalition with the Greens in the event of a hung <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>. “There is no truth to any aspect or any detail of what he’s saying,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s campaign headquarters yesterday emailed journalists a list of five media events where Mr Turnbull had not appeared with candidates or MPs.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020160517ec5i00039</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160517ec5i00031" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull securing borders (and perhaps a few votes)</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Koziol </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>477 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As far as campaign stunts go, it doesn't get more blatantly political than a visit to an Australian Border Force patrol <b>boat</b>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But reporters arriving to the carefully staged event on Tuesday were warned not to photograph Malcolm Turnbull alongside the Border Force's logo, which proudly adorned the Cape Jervis docked in Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Border Force was keen to avoid being politicised, the PM's aides explained, even as cameras were being assembled right behind them for a press conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the seepage of politics proved unstoppable. Following a tour of the Cape Jervis, Mr Turnbull used the occasion to launch his strongest attack to date on Labor's <b>asylum</b> seeker credentials.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The protection of Australia's borders is a political issue. We should not be naive about this," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"No matter how professional, no matter how capable, courageous and committed the Border Force is, everything depends on strong leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Labor cannot deliver that. [Bill] Shorten cannot deliver that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent weeks, the Labor leader has had to contend with numerous candidates and retiring MPs distancing themselves from Labor's support for offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said those individuals represented "just the tip of the iceberg" of dissent within Labor's ranks, and accused them of "crab-walking away" from strong border protection "in the direction of the Greens".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the second day in a row the Prime Minister has used a press conference to accuse Labor of cosying up to the Greens in case it needed their support to form a minority government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Regardless of what they say before the election, we know from the experience of Kevin Rudd 's government that they will not perform, that they will fail, that they lack the conviction to be strong," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he was coy when asked about the photo-that-must-not-be-taken, insisting there had been "ample opportunity" to photograph him as he walked about the Border Force vessel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Border Force, essentially a rebranding of customs and immigration forces under former prime minister Tony Abbott , has attracted its share of controversy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In August last year, it announced an operation to randomly check people's visas in Melbourne's CBD. It spawned spontaneous protests and was cancelled just hours later, not before being branded a "border farce".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And precious little is known about the Border Force's activities at sea, because the government does not comment on what it dubs "operational matters" such as <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aboard the Cape Jervis on Tuesday, a crew member revealed operatives had previously been involved in about four or five jobs during each 28-day mission, including intercepting <b>asylum</b> seeker boats or illegal Indonesian fishing vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But work had been quieter recently, he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020160517ec5i00031</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160517ec5i0000l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull fires a broadside at Labor</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Michael Koziol </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>484 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull fires a broadside at Labor By Michael Koziol</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visits a Border Force patrol <b>boat</b> the Cape Jervis in Darwin on Tuesday. Photo: ANDREW MEARES</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As far as campaign stunts go, it doesn't get more blatantly political than a visit to an Australian Border Force patrol <b>boat</b>. But reporters arriving to the carefully staged event on Tuesday were warned not to photograph Malcolm Turnbull alongside the Border Force's logo, which proudly adorned the Cape Jervis docked in Darwin. The Border Force was keen to avoid being politicised, the PM's aides explained, even as cameras were being assembled right behind them for a press conference. But the seepage of politics proved unstoppable. Following a tour of the Cape Jervis, Mr Turnbull used the occasion to launch his strongest</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">attack to date on Labor's <b>asylum</b> seeker credentials. "The protection of Australia's borders is a political issue. We should not be naive about this," he said. "No matter how professional, no matter how capable, courageous and committed the Border Force is, everything depends on strong leadership. "Labor cannot deliver that. [Bill] Shorten cannot deliver that." In recent weeks, the Labor leader has had to contend with numerous candidates and retiring MPs distancing themselves from Labor's support for offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs. Mr Turnbull said those individuals represented "just the tip of the iceberg" of dissent within Labor's ranks, and accused them of "crab-</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">walking away" from strong border protection "in the direction of the Greens". It was the second day in a row the Prime Minister had used a press conference to accuse Labor of cosying up to the Greens in case it needed their support to form a minority government. "Regardless of what they say before the election, we know from the experience of Kevin Rudd 's government that they will not perform, that they will fail, that they lack the conviction to be strong," MrTurnbull said. But he was coy when asked about the photo-that-must-not-be-taken, insisting there had been "ample opportunity" to photograph him as he walked about the Border Force vessel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Border Force, essentially a rebranding of customs and immigration forces under former prime minister Tony Abbott , has attracted its share of controversy. In August last year, it announced an operation to randomly check people's visas in Melbourne's CBD. It spawned spontaneous protests and was cancelled just hours later, not before being branded a "border farce". And precious little is known about the Border Force's activities at sea, because the government does not comment on what it dubs "operational matters" such as <b>boat</b> turn-backs. Aboard the Cape Jervis on Tuesday, a crew member revealed operatives had previously been involved in about four or five jobs during each 28-day mission.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RF</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>78085845</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gdip : International Relations | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160517ec5i0000l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160517ec5i0008i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Another ALP hopeful goes rogue</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN, ROSIE LEWIS, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>692 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BOATS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another Labor candidate has ­spoken out against key elements of her party’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, and suggested the ALP under Bill Shorten has become a “weakened right-wing” opposition.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In another blow to the Opposition Leader, who is battling internal dissent over his party’s support for <b>boat</b> turnbacks, The Australian can reveal that Katie Gompertz, Labor’s candidate for the Sydney seat of Bradfield, has become the 21st ALP candidate or MP to ­express concern about Australia’s near-bipartisan <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies. Ms Gompertz has been a strong critic of <b>boat</b> turnbacks and has ­advocated an end to the practice of detaining <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revelation came as Malcolm Turnbull ramped up his ­attack on Mr Shorten for “crab walking” towards the Greens on border protection. “They lack the conviction and they lack the commitment to keep our borders ­secure,” the Prime Minister said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> posts, Ms Gompertz has said she agrees that “the Australian government has a disastrous obsession with stopping the boats”. She is also critical of the government for the practice of offshore detention, a policy revived by the Labor government in 2008.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We live in a land of plenty, it even says we’d like to share it in our national anthem, wait what? Only with Anglo-Europeans/US/Canada/other Anglo nations? That makes no sense, oh you’re racist, I see, move along then. Seeking <b>asylum</b> is not a criminal offence so why do we lock them up? #notinmyname,” she says in an April 2015 post that is at odds with Labor’s support for offshore detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Gompertz also used an opinion piece in March to advocate for a “moral outcry” against current <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in a direct criticism of Mr Shorten, Ms Gompertz shares a post from advocate Julian Burnside that says Australia has a ­“corrupt hard-right-wing Liberal government”, a “weakened, right-wing Labor opposition” and “no political leadership at all”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sharing the comment, Ms Gompertz says: “Oh dear. I fear he may be right!” She also uses her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page to rail against the deficit levy that Mr Shorten proposes to keep if he wins government, and ­describes the Australian Christian Democratic Party as “turds” and its supporters as “some of the most heinous people on this planet”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That new proposed debt tax can literally and figuratively go stick it’s (sic) head up it’s (sic) posterior! Thanks, another bill to pay on an already strained household budget!” Major Projects Minister Paul Fletcher, who holds the safe Liberal seat of Bradfield, said Ms Gompertz was another example of Labor’s divisions on border protection. “They’re divided on border protection, divided on penalty rates and out of touch with the concerns and aspirations of Australian families,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Gompertz joins a growing number of Labor MPs and candidates at odds with Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies. When contacted by The Australian, Ms Gompertz would not say whether she supported the ALP’s turnback policy. “I can’t answer that question. I can’t answer that question over the phone, only in writing.” When questions were put to Ms Gompertz, a response was provided from Labor’s communications unit saying she was “excited to be part of a Labor team that will fully fund the Gonski education reforms and protect Medicare”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I fully support the Labor policy as adopted at national conference,” the statement said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seizing on the ALP’s divisions, Mr Turnbull invoked John Howard’s rallying cry for tough border protection and launched a savage attack on Mr Shorten, saying 25 candidates and backbenchers against the policy were “just the tip of the iceberg”. “They are the symptom of a fundamental problem ... which is that the Labor Party does not agree with the government’s strong policy on border protection,” Mr Turnbull said at a visit to the Port of Darwin.Questioning whether deputy leader Tanya Plibersek wanted to “change” the framework, Mr Turnbull claimed his party was the only one that could deliver “strong leadership” on illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seeker policy disunity dogs Shorten</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Murray </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>709 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T hanks to the man Labor still thinks should head the United Nations, the major political parties took very similar <b>asylum</b> seeker policies to the last Federal election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But now, within sight of another national poll on July 2, there is a clear groundswell within Labor trying to break the nexus Kevin Rudd forged.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week’s political agenda was littered with reports of more than 20 Labor candidates breaking ranks with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten over his insistence that coalition cornerstones such as offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs were also his policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most Australians will dread the thought of another election campaign dominated by <b>asylum</b> seekers, but coalition MPs will be licking their lips.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue was polarised on Sunday when the emboldened Greens leader Richard di Natale, sniffing the potential for another hung Parliament, said any support for Labor in government would be contingent on “a more decent and compassionate treatment of those people legitimately seeking <b>asylum</b>”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In other words, the Greens would demand Labor adopted its open borders policy if it needed their numbers to form a government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That raises the spectre of the Julia Gillard “no carbon tax” promise which the Greens forced her to break as the price of supporting her government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Shorten has ruled out the prospect of another liaison with the Greens, which destroyed Labor governments in Tasmania and federally, di Natale sees it differently.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When faced with the prospect of governing, wiser heads will prevail and it makes more sense to enter into a responsible power-sharing arrangement with the Greens,” he told Sky News on Sunday. And he’s right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So can anything the Labor leader says about <b>asylum</b> seeker policy be believed?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The core of the existing faux bipartisanship was Rudd’s pre-election edict in 2013 that <b>asylum</b> seekers who tried to force their way across our borders would not set foot in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd set the new benchmark when he announced the Manus Island solution in July 2013: “As of today, <b>asylum</b> seekers who come here by <b>boat</b> without a visa will never be settled in Australia.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And he hoped that would be enough to save the election because he knew it was what most Australians wanted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Faced with that intention to close the gap between Labor’s porous borders and the coalition’s intention to resume its former tough policy, 79.9 per cent of voters opted for their positions. But voters had an alternative.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens were promising to stop <b>boat</b> turn-backs and Palmer United wanted to fly <b>asylum</b> seekers in from Indonesia for processing. They got 14.2 per cent between them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The coalition won and set about fixing Labor’s mess.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The boats stopped when turn-backs began.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The numbers in detention fell. The children being held fell from 8000 under Labor to nil — just as it had before John Howard left office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So why are we being pushed into another <b>asylum</b> seeker election? As the climate change adherents say, isn’t the science settled?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don’t we know what works to keep borders secure and stop people from dying at sea? And haven’t the people spoken?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well, not according to the <b>asylum</b> seeker policy sceptics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They just won’t accept the overwhelming weight of political science that their solution is electoral poison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And why is Labor preselecting people so at odds with community sentiment and party policy? They would clearly be more at home standing for the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One political maxim that always rings true is that disunity is death. These pronouncements by Labor candidates give the Government a battering ram on a major issue of concern to Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s scrapping of the Howard <b>asylum</b> seeker policies cost taxpayers $11 billion. It also caused more than 1000 deaths at sea and gave enormous wealth to members of criminal gangs who run people smuggling operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten trumped Rudd and matched the coalition’s successful policy of tow-backs at Labor’s national conference last year when members of its Left faction lost the debate. Shorten owes a debt to the construction union for saving him on that issue. Strangely, many ALP candidates don’t seem to remember the occasion.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP TRIO JUMP SHIP</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RENEE VIELLARIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>427 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THREE Labor candidates in Queensland will become a liability for Bill Shorten today amid revelations they previously attacked the ALP’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Opposition Leader desperately tries to cut the political albatross from his neck, it can be revealed his candidates in Fairfax, Fisher and Wide Bay have urged Labor to soften its platform or have aligned themselves with <b>refugee</b> groups who have railed against the ALP.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wide Bay’s Lucy Stanton, Bill Gissane, who is running in Fisher, and Scott Anderson, who will run in Fairfax, are among a growing number of candidates who have previously voiced their frustration with <b>asylum</b> seeker policies in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Gissane said on his <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> account in January that he opposed offshore detention and was “seeking to change current stance’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Anderson has his photo listed on a Queensland Labor for Refugees petition web page which attacks the ALP for turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Stanton said on her <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> page: “Manus needs to be shut and both Labor and Libs need a decent bipartisan policy.” Comment was sought from ALP state secretary Evan Moorhead last night. It will also be revealed today Sydney federal Labor candidate for Bradfield, Katie Gompertz, has in the past two years blasted <b>asylum</b> seeker policy and deficit levy Labor supports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull yesterday seized on the growing number of Labor candidates and MPs who have publicly and privately scorched offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mr Shorten says that he agrees with the Government’s policy, that’s what he says,’’ Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have now more than two dozen – 25 at latest count – of his candidates and backbenchers who are unhappy and disassociate themselves with (Labor’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The reality is that they are just the tip of the iceberg. They are the symptom of a fundamental problem that Mr Shorten has, which is that the Labor Party does not agree with the Government’s strong policy on border protection.” Mr Shorten yesterday accused Mr Turnbull of dishonesty: “He has clearly decided that he’s going to say as often as he can that Labor won’t tackle the people smugglers .... There is no truth to any aspect or any detail of what he’s saying. Mr Turnbull’s clearly been told lies or he’s telling lies.”Earlier this month it was revealed Labor’s candidate for Herbert, Cathy O’Toole, had protested for refugees. Last week, Ms O’Toole said she backed the ALP’s position but would not say “turn-backs’’.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>You can’t trust Labor on border security, says PM</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>142 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
MALCOLM Turnbull has launched his strongest attack on Labor’s <b>boat</b> policy divisions, declaring they will “fail” in government and current dissent about turnbacks is “the tip of the iceberg”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM then went further, saying Australia’s economic prosperity depended on successful border protection.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull turned the election blowtorch firmly on the <b>asylum</b>-seeker issue yesterday, touring an Australian Border Force vessel in Darwin. He said the 25 Labor candidates and MPs who had questioned the tough policy proved Labor could not secure the borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Channelling John Howard, Mr Turnbull said his government would be relentless in stopping illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals and ensuring the Government chose who came to Australia.He pointed to the success of the turnback policy under Mr Howard before 50,000 people arrived under Labor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Greens squeeze giving Bill the pips</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DENNIS SHANAHAN POLITICAL EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>440 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten is being squeezed and the pressure is showing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So early in this long campaign, the Opposition Leader is starting to sound shrill and frustrated as the Greens attack Labor from the left on social issues and workers’ rights while simultaneously joining the Coalition in a pincer movement on illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is of real concern for Labor is that its back-room deals on <b>asylum</b>-seekers, party reform and same-sex marriage have been exposed for what they are: no real examination of where Labor stands, no true conviction and an abrogation of the duty of a party losing government to truly examine itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were too many union deals to prop up Shorten’s leadership that now come back to haunt the Labor leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is to Labor’s credit that economic policy development has given it political momentum, but its failure to reassess itself is now giving the Greens and the Liberals headway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is remarkable, and no doubt adding to Labor’s frustration, is that the Greens are primarily attacking the ALP, contesting Labor seats and vying for Labor voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the Greens, Labor is the party it sees both as a host and a victim from which it can drain political force like a parasitic fig and strangle into subservience, ultimately to death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens Leader Richard Di Natale treats Liberals as mere background fears as he fights in Labor’s foreground of inner-city Sydney and Melbourne, targeting Labor’s leading old-school Leftie, Anthony Albanese, in Grandlyer with policies on “progressive” issues such as same-sex marriage and the safe schools ideology.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time, Greens have wedged Shorten on the workers’ concerns of penalty rates in an appeal to the factory floor, the office and the coffee shop that reaches out to the industrial Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the Right and Left, the value of the Opposition Leader’s deal on offshore processing and “turning back the boats” is being undermined as Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull exploit Labor’s failures in government and the Greens foment civil war within the ALP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far Dutton is proving the most effective and politically damaging cabinet minister against Labor in the campaign, as he tallies growing ALP dissent, reminds voters about Labor’s failures and gives the Prime Minister a walk-up start.Turnbull’s own public conviction has increased as the Labor-Greens divisions grow, and he can exploit doubts about offshore processing under a Labor government or a Labor-Greens minority government, and Shorten’s contradictions on penalty rates.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Prime Minister, you can't airbrush away the damage</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Election 2016 - COMMENT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's not yet day 10 of the campaign, and Malcolm Turnbull has played the <b>asylum</b>-seeker card with all the deftness and subtlety of a Tony Abbott shirtfront.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Until now, Mr Turnbull has been content to let Peter Dutton do the dirty work, serving up his daily tally of the number of Labor MPs who have ever expressed the slightest discomfort with any elements of Coalition (or Labor) border protection policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, with a Border Force patrol <b>boat</b> to provide the photo opportunity, Mr Turnbull has stepped up to declare that Labor doesn't have the courage, or the will, or the conviction to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, no, Prime Minister, the 25 Labor MPs you say are only the "tip of the iceberg" are not in open mutiny over Bill Shorten's (and Labor's) commitment to turning back the boats and offshore processing (notwithstanding the breathless headlines in the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many have done nothing more than express similar sentiments to you, like when you told Fran Kelly you "sympathise with, and grieve for" the "mental anguish" that so many on Nauru and Manus Island have had inflicted on them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of them simply share the concerns you said you had for those on Nauru and Manus in your very first televised interview after becoming PM, before the bureaucrats and Mr Dutton pulled you up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of them believe the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> when it asserts, after visiting both places with health professionals, that refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers should be removed "immediately".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agency described both arrangements as "completely untenable", despite the best efforts of Nauru and Papua New Guinea,saying prolonged detention had proved "immensely harmful" for the around 2000 people on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was after a shocking spike in self-harm on Nauru and the decision by PNG's highest court that the denial of liberty to those on Manus violated that country's constitution - and countless reports chronicling instances of abuse and sky-rocking levels of mental illness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, in the story Mr Dutton and now you are trying to project, these and other problems are airbrushed away and anyone with a scintilla of empathy is disqualified from office. It's unbecoming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it isn't turnbacks, or even offshore processing per se, that is causing most angst among the "Labor dissidents" (and several on your own side); it's the miserable failure, year after year, to find any enduring solution for those who have been found to have a legitimate fear of persecution if they return to their home countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After almost three years in office, you have only come up with one third-country option, Cambodia: one of the poorest and most corrupt countries on Earth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the policy failure Labor says it would rectify, though neither Mr Shorten nor his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, have nominated their preferred resettlement countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is the policy failure you are banking on the electorate being content to ignore.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM steps up attack on Labor over <b>asylum</b> seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Primrose Riordan   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ELECTION 2016 - Border protection</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claimed that many Labor Party candidates and MPs didn't really support the government's actions on border protection, such as turning back boats carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers, in a sign he won't hesitate to exploit concerns in Labor that refugees are being harshly treated.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At Darwin Port on day nine of the election campaign, Mr Turnbull toured the Cape Jervis, an Australian Border Force <b>boat</b>, and said deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek had shown a lack of conviction in her own policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"[Labor Leader Bill Shorten's] deputy is crab-walking away in the way of the Greens, his candidates are crab-walking away in the direction of the Greens," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked about the number of Labor candidates who had expressed concerns about <b>asylum</b> seekers, Ms Plibersek said on Monday they were against the Coalition's policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"All of these candidates have said that they support Labor Party policy," she said. "What they don't like is Liberal Party policy. They don't like indefinite detention on Manus Island and Nauru. Labor is committed to stopping the boats, to making sure that people smugglers don't start up again their wicked trade."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the visit taking place during an election campaign, the Australian Border Force indicated it did not want to be politicised and asked that the Prime Minister was not photographed with its logo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was not to be. Mr Turnbull said the choice this election was between a party that allowed the force to "keep our borders secure" and a party not on message.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The protection of Australia's borders is a political issue," he said. "They will do an outstanding job, whoever is prime minister, but everything depends on whether there is a government that is committed to keeping our borders secure." .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten suggested Mr Turnbull was "telling lies" about Labor's position on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is no truth to any aspect or any detail of what he's saying," Mr Shorten said. "Mr Turnbull's clearly been told lies or he's telling lies. Whatever the case, he ought to stop and he ought to stop now."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No 1 ticket holder supports offshore policy – for now</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHAEL MCKENNA, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>449 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The human rights lawyer leading Labor’s Senate ticket in Queensland backs the opposition’s bipartisan support for offshore <b>asylum</b>-seeker processing but will not rule out pushing for a policy change after the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Murray Watt, who won the top spot on the Senate ticket over sitting Labor senators, yesterday said he supported Labor’s policy “into this election’’ after last year decrying the offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A rising star of Queensland’s dominant Left faction, he fought for a policy reversal at last year’s ALP national conference, saying offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs were not “in line with our long-held Labor values’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Watt, who last year won a civil rights award as a lawyer in a case challenging aspects of the Coalition offshore processing policy, said he now supported Labor’s stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have had my say on this issue at the ALP national conference but I support Labor’s policy into this election,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As a candidate, I support all of Labor’s policies and I consider them far, far better on this issue than anything Malcolm Turnbull has to offer.’’ Mr Watt, who is considered a future frontbench contender, would not say if he would advocate a policy change after July 2. “Let’s leave it at that,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A former solicitor with Labor law firm Maurice Blackburn, Mr Watt is a certain to enter the Senate after his faction controversially pushed him to top spot on Labor’s ticket.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Watt has distanced himself from dissenters in the caucus and candidates against Labor’s policy of supporting offshore facilities, resurrected by then prime minister Kevin Rudd before the 2013 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 15 candidates are understood to oppose offshore processing but Mr Watt’s Queensland colleague, former state ALP secretary Anthony Chisholm — who is second on the Senate ticket — said he had voted in favour of the policy at the national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, Labor’s candidate for Macarthur in Sydney’s southwest, Michael Freelander, said Australia’s overseas detention centres were “cruel” and <b>asylum</b>-seekers should be processed onshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I would hate to think we would be torturing children in a place like Manus Island — in a concentration camp, and I could never support that,” said Dr Freelander, a pediatrician from one of Australia’s oldest Jewish families, according to The Daily Telegraph.Last week Bill Shorten said Labor policy would not change. “The Labor Party, if we are elected, has got a very clear policy which we’ll be sticking to — a very clear policy,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No 1 ticket holder supports offshore policy – for now</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael McKenna exclusive </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>449 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The human rights lawyer leading Labor’s Senate ticket in Queensland backs the opposition’s bipartisan support for offshore <b>asylum</b>-seeker processing but will not rule out pushing for a policy change after the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Murray Watt, who won the top spot on the Senate ticket over sitting Labor senators, yesterday said he supports Labor’s policy “into this election’’ after last year decrying the offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A rising star of Queensland’s dominant Left faction, he fought for a policy reversal at last year’s ALP national conference, saying offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turn-backs were not “in line with our long-held Labor values’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Watt, who last year won a civil rights award as a lawyer in a case challenging aspects of the Coalition offshore processing policy, said he now supported Labor’s stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have had my say on this issue at the ALP national conference but I support Labor’s policy into this election,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As a candidate, I support all of Labor’s policies and I consider them far, far better on this issue than anything Malcolm Turnbull has to offer.’’ Mr Watt, who is considered a future frontbench contender, would not say if he would advocate a policy change after July 2. “Let’s leave it at that,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A former solicitor with Labor law firm Maurice Blackburn, Mr Watt is a certain to enter the Senate after his faction controversially pushed him to top spot on Labor’s ticket.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Watt has distanced himself from dissenters in the caucus and candidates against Labor’s policy of supporting offshore facilities, resurrected by then prime minister Kevin Rudd before the 2013 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 15 candidates are understood to oppose offshore processing but Mr Watt’s Queensland colleague, former state ALP secretary Anthony Chisholm — who is second on the Senate ticket — said he had voted in favour of the policy at the national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, Labor’s candidate for Macarthur in Sydney’s southwest, Michael Freelander, said Australia’s overseas detention centres were “cruel” and <b>asylum</b>-seekers should be processed onshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I would hate to think we would be torturing children in a place like Manus Island — in a concentration camp, and I could never support that,” said Dr Freelander, a pediatrician from one of Australia’s oldest Jewish families, according to The Daily Telegraph.Last week Bill Shorten said Labor policy would not change. “The Labor Party, if we are elected, has got a very clear policy which we’ll be sticking to — a very clear policy,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cold shoulder for candidate with inconvenient message</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR, ROSIE LEWIS   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREMANTLE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull campaigned in Fremantle yesterday without his party’s candidate after it emerged the former Liberal staffer opposes gay marriage and is a critic of the Australian parliament’s apology to the Stolen Generations.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister was not joined by West Australian Premier Colin Barnett, either; the state Liberal leader is effectively at war with the federal government over his state’s poor share of GST and is considered campaign poison after a Newspoll last week that showed state Labor surging further ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, Mr Turnbull was forced to distance himself from the views of Sherry Sufi, the Liberal’s endorsed candidate for the socially progressive Labor-held seat in Perth’s south, after reports Mr Sufi had mused online that same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In postings since deleted on the conservative website Menzies House, Mr Sufi also reportedly ­explained his opposition to the constitutional recognition of indigenous people by saying those ­associated with the Recognise campaign thrived on a mindset of victimhood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fremantle is traditionally a Labor seat but has a growing Green vote. It has been held since 2007 by a hero of the broad Left, Melissa Parke, a former UN lawyer who has broken ranks with her party on <b>asylum</b>-<b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Parke retires with a margin of 5.4 per cent, making Fremantle one of just four seats in WA with a margin of less than 6 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten seized on the disapproving response to Mr Sufi’s reported postings, calling him ­“another knuckle-dragger from the far Right”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Mr Sufi’s comments were proof the Liberal Party was divided. Asked where his candidate was, Mr Turnbull replied: “I hope he’s engaging with the people of ­Fremantle and doing some good door-knocking. It’s very char­acter-building, I’ve done it myself.” Labor infrastructure spokesman Anthony Albanese was also in Perth yesterday with the party’s new Fremantle candidate, Josh Wilson, after Labor dropped its initial candidate Chris Brown over his failure to disclose criminal convictions from the 1980s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese said Mr Sufi’s views did not belong in a party governing Australia. “One of the problems with the modern Liberal Party is that it has a leader who actually, to be absolutely fair to him, has very different views on reconciliation, on climate change, on a republic, on public transport — but the problem here is that he can’t actually say them ­because he is at war with Tony ­Abbott,” Mr Albanese said.“He can’t actually be true to himself.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tanya rocks the <b>boat</b></span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DIVISIONS within the opposition over the Labor Party’s policy on people smugglers emerged again yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek has broken ranks with her boss Bill Shorten over <b>asylum</b> seekers, backing ALP candidates who did not support the government’s turnback policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten has previously claimed he was on a “unity ticket” with the government when it came to tackling people smugglers and has adopted the controversial turnback policy to stop the boats returning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Ms Plibersek said yesterday the Liberals and Labor had different policies to deal with the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“All of these candidates have said they support Labor Party policy. What they don’t like is Liberal Party policy,” she said.Three weeks ago, Mr Shorten said the opposite.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b>-seeker passion</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor candidate Stephanie Perri is among seven hopefuls in Victoria who have pledged to fight Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker platform, which includes <b>boat</b> turn-back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it emerged Tasmanian Liberal candidate Amanda-Sue Markham had tweeted in the past: “We’re obliged by our wealth to take in <b>asylum</b> seekers.”She said yesterday: “I’m proud of the Coalition’s border protection policies and fully support them. Experience shows they work. By stopping the boats Australia has been able to increase its intake of genuine refugees.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Di Natale could shift on boats for deal with Labor</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG BROWN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>602 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens leader Richard Di Natale has opened the door to amending the party’s <b>refugee</b> policy so it can strike a deal with Labor, but on condition the humanitarian ­intake rises to as much as 50,000 a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Di Natale said yesterday that the Greens’ position on <b>asylum</b>-seekers could be one area where “there may be some movement” so it could govern with Labor should there be a hung parliament.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the weekend, Senator Di Natale said he would refuse a deal to make Bill Shorten prime minister unless Labor took a more ­humane approach to <b>asylum</b>-seekers, with the Greens always advocating strongly for onshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But yesterday he did not rule out supporting offshore processing in a Labor-Greens government if the yearly humanitarian intake were increased. “That’s something that we will come to if and when there is a close result and the need of negotiations post-election,” he said in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has promised to raise the humanitarian intake from 13,750 to 27,000 a year within a decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten has committed to keeping the Coalition’s hardline stance on illegal arrivals, which ­includes offshore processing, in policies that have been heavily criticised by the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Di Natale said Mr Shorten’s stance on illegal <b>boat</b> ­arrivals would not stop the Greens forming an alliance with the party, with room for movement on some policies. “The Labor Party has said they would like to increase the humanitarian intake,” he said. “We would like to see the number increased to 50,000. They don’t support that but they do support an increase so we can engage on that level. There is also an opportunity to ensure we engage more meaningfully with the region, to try and ­ensure that we get a meaningful engagement with our neighbours rather than antagonising them, which was the approach that Tony Abbott took, and it’s been carried on by Minister (Peter) Dutton.” <b>Refugee</b> policy has been a headache for the Labor Party so far in the campaign, with many of its candidates openly disagreeing with the party’s stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although Senator Di Natale said the Greens would negotiate, he noted the party would act with conscience on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also criticised Mr Shorten for “coming down like a tonne of bricks” on Labor candidates who hold views that are not in line with the party but that “we know many decent Australians hold”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We should never, ever deliberately harm innocent people in an effort to send a message to someone else,” he said.Senator Di Natale again ridiculed Mr Shorten’s promise that he would never negotiate with the Greens if the election produced a hung parliament. “I’ve heard the Labor Party say that in the lead-up to a number of elections,’’ he said. “I’ve heard them say that in the lead-up to the 2010 election, I saw them in a number of state ­elections arguing that they wouldn’t have any discussions with minority or independent parliamentarians,” he said. “When push comes to shove, and the decision is whether the Labor Party governs or walks away from that and hands over government to the Coalition, then wiser heads would prevail. What you would see then is a responsible discussion between two parties that understand that it is much better to have strong ­action on global warming, a little more decency on refugees, rather than what we’ve got at the ­moment, which is a Coalition ­government.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gjob : General Labor Issues | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160516ec5h0003u</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020160516ec5h00031" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor’s Perri backtracks on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>134 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten’s authority over Labor’s border protection stance has taken another hit after three more candidates emerged in opposition to the party’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victorian candidate Stephanie Perri is among seven hopefuls who have publicly pledged to fight their party’s current platform, which includes <b>boat</b> turn-back and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Perri is fighting to keep the eastern suburban Melbourne seat of Chisolm in Labor hands following the retirement of long-time MP Anna Burke.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She pledged just two months ago on social media to be “a strong voice within the Labor caucus for a better approach” on border protection issues.The former mayor of Monash City Council backtracked last night, telling The Advertiser she now supported Labor’s policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020160516ec5h00031</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020160516ec5h0001z" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Greens gain inner-city votes from Labor with boats policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL WILLIAMS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>660 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHO would have thought watermelons could be so political?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year melon growers voted on a levy on the gorgeous summer fruit so the AMA – that’s the Australian Melon Association, not the doctors’ mob – could fund research and development.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then last week Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull kicked off his campaign at a Brisbane fruit market where he praised the melon and the labourers who haul them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And then there’s the old dig at the so-called “watermelon party” – the Australian Greens – who, conservatives snigger, are really class-warring commies under a thin cloak of environmental concern. Green on the outside and red in the middle. Get it? So witty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I wonder if the metaphor extends to the smooth, cool exterior and soft, sweet insides of this much loved fruit? Better rethink the insult, guys.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens have had a knack of annoying both sides of politics on everything from climate change and renewable energy to transport and the future of coal mining.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it’s their <b>refugee</b> policy – opposition to <b>boat</b> tow-backs and offshore processing – that really riles Coalition and Labor voters alike.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet so much of it is political expediency. Labor learnt at the 2001 election there are more votes in being tough on <b>asylum</b> seekers than in being humane. Leader Kim Beazley was twice mauled in that campaign – held weeks after 9/11 and the Tampa and SIEV IV <b>boat</b> incidents – first for taking a compassionate position, then for adopting the Coalition’s harsher, more popular line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But keeping up with the political Joneses means being out of step with the Browns or, in this case, the Greens, who have profited from product differentiation. By siding with the Coalition, Labor can only blame itself for creating an ideological vacuum on the left in inner urban electorates. You can’t blame the Greens for wanting to fill that space.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also highlights the sheer hypocrisy of the major parties. Labor long courted Greens’ preferences but, with the Greens threatening them in inner Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, ALP loyalists label the Greens “Liberal lapdogs”. Similarly, after years vilifying Greens as extremists, Victorian Liberals now chase Green preferences, saying the environmental party are “not the nutters they used to be”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the hypocrisy goes further. The Liberal and Labor parties have long boasted they are broad churches in which a range of ideological positions not only exist but are freely expressed among members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a few cases that’s true. Women’s control over their own bodies and medical ethics are usually given conscience votes in parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So why isn’t <b>refugee</b> policy granted the same luxury? Why are Coalition MPs salivating in their demands that Bill Shorten disendorse candidates who dissent from a party line wholly separate from their own organisation?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Disunity in politics is so often electoral death but there are exceptions, and <b>refugee</b> policy is one – a point Turnbull understands in his refusal to support his Liberal colleagues’ call for Labor scalps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull knows there’s very little kudos in attacking Labor over disunity on this issue. For one, the Liberals are supposed to champion free speech. To pillory free expression is just more hypocrisy. For another, a number of Liberal candidates and MPs oppose their party’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy. And third, there are votes for a party that at least sounds like it has a compassionate conscience, even if it behaves otherwise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull gets it and so should his colleagues. To what extent Labor MPs get it is not clear, but if they want to stem the flow of votes to the Greens, they will allow – perhaps praise – candidates who speak freely in and outside the tent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A fair go for even the most unpopular views is simply what Australian voters want and expect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Paul Williams is a senior lecturer at Griffith University’s School of HumanitiesTwitter:@PDWilliams1</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | brisbn : Brisbane | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | queensl : Queensland</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020160516ec5h0001z</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160516ec5h0000t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Deported Sri Lankan ready to sue</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG BEARUP   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>243 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government may face a legal challenge over its ­deportation this month of a boatload of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers, who were flown back from the Cocos Islands, an Australian territory.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan human rights lawyer Lakshan Dias described the ­deportations as a “grave violation of international law” and said he had been in contact with lawyers in Australia interested in pursuing a challenge. He said the recent decision by the Papua New Guinean High Court, which declared Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island illegal, would have had no bearing on the Sri Lankans’ decision to go to Australia. He doubted they would have heard of it. Mr Dias represents one of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers deported. He said his client was poor, desperate and illiterate and “didn’t even own a mobile phone”. There was a “high possibility” his client was being persecuted in Sri Lanka and had a legitimate case for <b>asylum</b>, he said.The <b>boat</b> carrying 12 Sri Lankans was spotted off the coast of the remote Cocos Islands a fortnight ago. After deportation, they were taken into custody when they ­arrived in Colombo and questioned by the country’s Criminal Investigation Department about how they had left Sri Lanka. Ten of them have been released on bail. However, two people, including Mr Dias’s client, remain in the ­Negombo Prision, charged with “leaving the country from an ­unlawful harbour”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>srilan : Sri Lanka | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160516ec5h0000t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020160516ec5h0004f" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SHORTEN HOLED ON BOATS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROB HARRIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>521 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten’s vow to maintain a hard line on border protection is unravelling as three more Victorian candidates are revealed to have threatened mutiny over Labor’s ­<b>asylum</b> seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stephanie Perri is among seven Labor candidates for Victorian seats who, it has now emerged, have pledged to fight their party’s current platform, which includes <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes as Mr Shorten’s campaign for election was again distracted yesterday, with Labor fumbling its ­defence of weekend penalty rates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Perri will fight to keep the eastern suburban seat of Chisholm in Labor hands following the retirement of long-time MP Anna Burke. But just two months ago she pledged on social media to be “a strong voice within the Labor caucus for a better approach” to border protection issues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former mayor of Monash backtracked last night, telling the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun she now supported Labor’s policy. “It is much better than the Liberals’ policy. It is more responsible and more humane,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s campaign has been plagued by internal divisions over <b>asylum</b> seekers during the past week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun can reveal Adam Rundell (Menzies) and Michael Barling (Wannon) have also previously promised to fight Labor’s policy — but swiftly fell into the party line when contacted yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kooyong candidate Marg D’Arcy was yesterday revealed to have accused Mr Shorten of “blowing in the wind”, called him a “bastard” and likening turning back boats to Jews being abandoned to Nazi death camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED PAGE 6 FROM PAGE 1 Mr Rundell last year said that if elected he would not “accept a turn-back policy lying down”, but now says: “I support Labor’s policy decided at the national conference.” Mr Barling previously promised to fight “black and blue” against his party’s offshore processing position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he now says: “I’m on the record as saying we need to be as compassionate as we can to <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees, so I see Labor’s policy as an ­incremental step in the right direction.” Victorian candidates Eric Kerr (Indi), Sophie Ismail (Melbourne) and Carl Katter (Higgins) have also hit out against Labor’s commitment to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats, along with around 15 others across the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said Labor was clearly “at war with itself”. “Their so-called policy on border protection and keeping boats stopped is a dog’s breakfast,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor’s weakness and divisions were a green light to people smugglers last time, and as candidate after candidate opposes their party position now it will be a green light again if they were to win government.” Mr Shorten yesterday took a swipe at the Turnbull government’s lack of success in its search for other countries to take <b>asylum</b> seekers in limbo on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve got a situation of ­almost indefinite detention,” he said. “That’s clearly unacceptable to people and it’s ­unfair on the people in the middle of it all.”rob.harris@news.com.au</p>
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UN condemns indefinite detention policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Daniel Flitton   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>587 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A005</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
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<span class="companylink">UN</span> condemns indefinite detention policy By Daniel Flitton</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The United Nations has savaged Australia's policy of locking away refugees for years without charge or trial on the basis of secret intelligence assessments. An international legal panel at the <span class="companylink">UN</span> has demanded compensation over "serious psychological harm" done to five men incarcerated for five years - only to be suddenly released into the community in recent months after the secret security finding was reversed. The <span class="companylink">UN</span> finding again throws a spotlight on what the legal panel criticised as Australia's "arbitrary" practice of indefinite detention for any <b>refugee</b> the <span class="companylink">Australian Security Intelligence Organisation</span> initially deems a risk to national security. At its height, more than 50 refugees were held for years after 2009 inside Australia's immigration detention network on security grounds. They have been held mainly in</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the Broadmeadows facility in Melbourne's north, and Villawood detention centre in Sydney. All but 10 of have since been quietly released during the past 18 months after ASIO subsequently revised its adverse assessment. One <b>refugee</b>, Ragav (not his real name), who was released last year after more than 1800 days in detention without knowing why, said his mind dulled with the ordeal. The latest ruling is the third time the <span class="companylink">UN</span> has criticised indefinite detention in Australia, but successive governments have refused to change the practice. Former prime minister Tony Abbott last year dismissed criticism of Australia's <b>refugee</b> policy, saying he was "sick of being lectured to by the United Nations". The High Court has also upheld the use of indefinite detention. The five men - three Sri Lankan Tamils, an Iranian and Afghan - arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2009 and 2010, and were each judged to qualify as refugees with a well-founded fear</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">of persecution. But they were later told a routine check by ASIO before a visa was issued had raised concerns, but not the reasons why. Refugees, unlike citizens, permanent residents or other visa holders, are not allowed to appeal an ASIO decision. The secret ruling left the men trapped in what has been described as a "legal black hole" of indefinite detention - not able to return to their home, not permitted release into the community, and with no other country willing to settle them. "The Immigration Department treats these ASIO assessments as a licence to detain, even though ASIO doesn't make that recommendation," international law specialist Ben Saul said. "But after executions and torture, indefinite detention is the worst thing you can do to a person under international human rights law." Professor Saul, Challis Chair of International Law at the <span class="companylink">University of Sydney</span>, appealed to the UN Human Rights Committee, a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">panel of legal experts, arguing the secret basis for the security assessment made it impossible to evaluate the justification for detention. The <span class="companylink">UN</span> legal panel ruled indefinite detention was not justified and Australian authorities had failed to demonstrate why other measures, such as mandatory reporting or monitoring, could not have satisfied security concerns. Professor Saul said it was appalling the senior leadership in the government - Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and Attorney- General George Brandis - were each lawyers but allowed indefinite detention to continue. ASIO has previously said it constantly reviews and updates the assessments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The five men have all been subsequently released , the last in December.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the <span class="companylink">UN</span> found the men's detention and the government's refusal to provide information or an appeal "cumulatively inflicted serious psychological harm".</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Bolt </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1013 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor struggles with the party line, but Turnbull is not much better, writes Andrew Bolt</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR is paying the price for promoting a pathetically childish morality that cares more about seeming good, not doing it.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its election campaign has been derailed as one Labor candidate after another has been outed as hostile to our border laws. At least 17 have now been revealed as critical of the Abbott government policies that actually stopped the boats and saved hundreds of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, they have been hostile to the <b>boat</b> policies he claims he will not change if he wins the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, voters will say. As if. Yeah, right, agrees Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull , himself an expert on moral posturing and turning on a dime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today’s exhibit is Marg D’Arcy, Labor’s candidate for Kooyong in Victoria. Three years ago, D’Arcy suggested we actually “sponsor <b>asylum</b> seekers to get on safe boats” to Australia. She tweeted last year to the ABC’s Q&A that “Stopping boats is not answer (sic)”. In fact, she insisted, “it was reckless to talk about turning back boats” which is now Labor’s official policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, Shorten says Labor even reserves the option of <b>boat</b> turnbacks. But who cares about Shorten, right? As D’Arcy sniffily tweeted when Shorten helped sack her beloved PM Julia Gillard, he just “blows with the wind”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do feel a flicker of sympathy for Shorten who, urged on by his cluey immigration spokesman Richard Marles, did belatedly declare last year that Labor had learned its lesson from its catastrophic decision in 2008 to scrap our tough border controls. Shorten said he would not repeat what the preening prime minister Kevin Rudd did back then – weaken our laws on the alleged grounds they lacked compassion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But check the price of Labor’s compassion: 1200 men, women and children drowned as they tried to sail here to claim Labor’s prize of a warm welcome. Another 50,000 illegal immigrants did manage to land, many taking the places of genuine refugees, and taxpayers were forced to pay $12 billion to deal with them. In the end, this armada of boats was eventually bringing in thousands of people from Iran and Sri Lanka, neither country notably unsafe, and even some from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Nepal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The consequences of the Left’s moral posturing is irrelevant to them. It seems that a few hundred drowned children is a small price to pay for the satisfaction the Left gets of seeming holier-than-thou.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children must drown so that Mr Activist may seem good. But as I say, I almost feel sorry for Shorten, because he at least finally forced his party to do what it should have done nearly a decade ago – back the kind of laws that it took Tony Abbott to restore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, Labor’s years of sanctimony had meanwhile helped to breed a new generation of Labor candidates who no longer cared that what counts most in a politician is not what they feel but what they do; not what they planned but what they achieved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so poor Shorten had the first week of this election campaign knocked sideways by a conga-line of people just like D’Arcy. It started with his candidate for Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, who said she was against <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It got worse by the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next was Cathy O’Toole, Labor’s candidate in the marginal seat of Herbert in Townsville, who had been photographed earlier this year holding a “Let them stay” sign in protest against <b>boat</b> people being sent to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was Michael Freelander, Labor’s candidate in the Sydney marginal seat of Macarthur, who likened the detention centre at Manus Island to a “concentration camp” and falsely claimed that this men-only centre was used to “torture” children. Knock, knock, Michael. <b>Boat</b> people at this “concentration camp” have an option no Jew in Auschwitz ever got: they can decide to go back home, or even to Cambodia or Papua New Guinea, and the Government will open the gates and even fill their pockets with our money.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on it went. Luke Gosling, the candidate in the Darwin seat of Solomon, and Fremantle candidate Josh Wilson were the next to be pictured at protests against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru. Tasmanian senator Lisa Singh damned <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s team are trying to look on the bright side. It’s better that this inevitable dissension played out in the first week of this long campaign and not closer to the election. And, hey, doesn’t it let Shorten show he’s determined to stick with the tough laws?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Actually, it makes us wonder how long he can keep it up when so many of his team think those tough laws are vicious – and when he might need to do a deal with the Greens to form government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, wait. There is one more candidate in this election who has form on being weak on boats and terrorism, and who adds some context to Shorten’s trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who, when Rudd was prime minister, was against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who didn’t publicly back Tony Abbott ’s plan as Opposition leader to turn back the boats. He’s the candidate who warned Abbott against treating terrorism as “a bravado issue” and bagged his proposal to strip terrorists overseas of their Australian citizenship, claiming it raised “very big legal and practical issues”. He’s the candidate who mocked Abbott’s attacks on ISIS as exaggerated, saying ISIS was “not Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan or Stalin’s Russia” and suggesting a “political settlement” in Syria would sort them out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That candidate? It’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull himself, the man now warning that Labor can’t be trusted to not go soft on national security.Take your pick on which side can be trusted least.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>CONGA LINE OF POLICY DOUBTERS SAP LABOR</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANDREW BOLT </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is paying the price for promoting a pathetically childish morality that cares more about seeming good. Its election campaign has been derailed as one Labor candidate after candidate has been outed as hostile to our border laws. At least 17 have now been revealed as critical of the Abbott government policies that actually stopped the boats and saved hundreds of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten — they have been hostile to the <b>boat</b> policies he claims he will not change if he wins the election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, voters will say. As if.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, agrees Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull — himself an expert on moral posturing and turning on a dime. On Saturday Peta Murphy, Labor’s candidate in Dunkley, became just the latest to embarrass Shorten, this time on national security laws as well. She was exposed as having been a committee member of an activist lawyers’ group which attacked our terror laws and even complained that the mass-murdering Islamist <span class="companylink">al-Shabaab</span> had been listed as a terrorist group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now meet today’s exhibit: Marg D’Arcy, Labor’s candidate for Kooyong. D’Arcy, three years ago, suggested we actually “sponsor <b>asylum</b> seekers to get on safe boats” to Australia, and tweeted last year to the ABC’s Q&A that “Stopping boats is not answer (sic)”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, she insisted, “it was reckless to talk about turning back boats” — which is now Labor’s official policy. In fact, Shorten says Labor even reserves the “option” of <b>boat</b> turnbacks. But who cares about Shorten, right? As D’Arcy sniffily tweeted when Shorten helped to sack her beloved prime minister, Julia Gillard, he just “blows with the wind”. I do feel a flicker of sympathy for Shorten, who, urged on by his cluey immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, did belatedly declare last year that Labor had learned its lesson from its catastrophic decision in 2008 to scrap our tough border controls. Shorten said he would not repeat what the preening prime minister Kevin Rudd did back then — weaken our laws on the alleged grounds they lacked “compassion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most press gallery journalists had cheered Rudd’s catastrophic mistake. The Age even crooned that “a stain was removed from the soul of this nation” and “Australia began the process of restoring some of its lost humanity”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But check the price of Labor’s “compassion”: 1200 men, women and children drowned as they tried to sail here to claim Labor’s prize of a warm welcome. Another 50,000 illegal immigrants did manage to land, many taking the places of genuine refugees, and taxpayers were forced to pay $12 billion to deal with them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, this armada was bringing in thousands of people from Iran and Sri Lanka, neither country notably unsafe, and even some from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Nepal. In the meantime, we have been reminded of the savage cost of admitting people we should have kept out. The last three terrorist attacks here — the Martin Place siege, the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng and the stabbing of two police in Melbourne — were all committed by Muslim “refugees” or their children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, all this brutal reality — so overwhelmingly obvious — has made zero impression on the thinking of many of the Left. The consequences of their moral posturing is irrelevant to them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems that a few hundred drowned children is a small price to pay for the satisfaction the Left gets of seeming holier-than-thou. Children must drown so that Mr Activist may seem good. But, as I say, I almost feel sorry for Shorten because he at least finally forced his party to do what it should have done nearly a decade ago — back the kind of laws that it took Tony Abbott to restore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, Labor’s years of sanctimony, meanwhile, had helped breed a new generation of Labor candidates who no longer cared that what counts most in a politician is not what they feel but what they do. Not what they planned but what they achieved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so poor Shorten had the first week of this campaign knocked sideways by a conga-line of people just like D’Arcy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It started with his candidate for Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, who said she was against <b>boat</b> turnbacks — and even won moral support from Shorten’s chief rival, Anthony Albanese. It got worse by the day. Next was Cathy O’Toole, Labor’s candidate in the marginal seat of Herbert, who had been photographed earlier this year holding a “Let them stay” sign in protest against <b>boat</b> people being sent to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was Michael Freelander, Labor’s candidate in the Sydney marginal seat of Macarthur, who likened the detention centre at Manus Island to a “concentration camp” and falsely claimed that this men-only centre was used to “torture” children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Knock, knock, Michael. <b>Boat</b> people “tortured” at this “concentration camp” have an option no Jew in Auschwitz ever got: they can just decide to go back home, or even to Cambodia or Papua New Guinea, and the government will open the gates and even fill their pockets with our money.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on it went. Luke Gosling, the candidate in the Darwin seat of Solomon, and Fremantle candidate Josh Wilson were next to have been pictured at protests against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru. Tasmanian senator Lisa Singh damned <b>boat</b> turnbacks, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s team are trying to look on the bright side. It’s better that this dissent played out in the first week and not closer to the election. And, hey, doesn’t it let Shorten show he’s determined to stick with the tough laws?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Actually, it makes us wonder how long he can keep it up when so many of his team think those tough laws are vicious — and when he might need to do a deal with the Greens to form government. But, wait. There is one more candidate who has form on being weak on boats and terrorism, and who adds context to Shorten’s trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who, when Rudd was Prime Minister, was against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who didn’t publicly back Tony Abbott ’s plan as Opposition Leader to turn back the boats. He’s the candidate who warned Abbott against treating terrorism as “a bravado issue”, and bagged his proposal to strip terrorists overseas of their Australian citizenship, claiming it raised “very big legal and practical issues”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who mocked Abbott’s attacks on the Islamic State as exaggerated, saying IS was “not Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan or Stalin’s Russia” and suggesting a “political settlement” in Syria would sort them out. That candidate? It’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull — the man now warning that Labor can’t be trusted to not go soft on national security. Take your pick on which side can be trusted least.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Andrew Bolt hosts The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7pm each week night. His guest tonight: Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1205 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR is paying the price for promoting a pathetically childish morality that cares more about seeming good, not doing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its election campaign has been derailed as Labor candidate after candidate has been outed as hostile to our border laws.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 17 now have been revealed as critical of the Abbott government policies that actually stopped the boats and saved hundreds of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, they have been hostile to the <b>boat</b> policies he claims he will not change if he wins the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, voters will say. As if.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, agrees Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull — himself an expert on moral posturing and turning on a dime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Saturday, Peta Murphy, Labor’s candidate in Dunkley, became just the latest to embarrass Shorten, this time on national security laws as well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was exposed as having been a committee member of an activist lawyers’ group which attacked our terror laws and even complained that the mass-murdering Islamist al-Shabaah had been listed as a terrorist group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now meet today’s exhibit: Marg D’Arcy, Labor’s candidate for Kooyong. D’Arcy three years ago suggested we actually “sponsor <b>asylum</b> seekers to get on safe boats” to Australia, and last year tweeted to the ABC’s Q & A that ‘Stopping boats is not answer [sic]”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, she insisted, “it was reckless to talk about turning back boats” — which is now Labor’s official policy. In fact, Shorten says Labor even reserves the “option” of <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But who cares about Shorten, right? As D’Arcy sniffily tweeted when Shorten helped to sack her beloved prime minister, Julia Gillard, he just “blows with the wind”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do feel a flicker of sympathy for Shorten, who, urged on by his cluey immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, did belatedly declare last year that Labor had learned its lesson from its catastrophic decision in 2008 to scrap our tough border controls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten said he would not repeat what the preening prime minister Kevin Rudd did back then — weaken our laws on the alleged grounds they lacked “compassion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most press gallery journalists had cheered Rudd’s catastrophic mistake. The Age even crooned then that “a stain was removed from the soul of this nation” and “Australia began the process of restoring some of its lost humanity”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But check the price of Labor’s “compassion”: 1200 men, women and children drowned as they tried to sail here to claim Labor’s prize of a warm welcome. Another 50,000 illegal immigrants did manage to land, many taking the places of genuine refugees, and taxpayers were forced to pay $12 billion to deal with them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, this armada was eventually bringing in thousands of people from Iran and Sri Lanka, neither country notably unsafe, and even some from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Nepal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the meantime, we have been reminded of the savage cost of admitting people we should have kept out. The last three terrorist attacks here — the Martin Place siege, the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng and the stabbing of two police in Melbourne — were all committed by Muslim “refugees” or their children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet all this brutal reality — so overwhelmingly obvious — has made zero impression on the thinking of many of the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The consequences of their moral posturing are irrelevant to them. It seems that a few hundred drowned children is a small price to pay for the satisfaction the Left gets of seeming holier-than-thou.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children must drown so that Mr Activist may seem good.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as I say, I almost feel sorry for Shorten, because he at least finally forced his party to do what it should have done nearly a decade ago — back the kind of laws that it took Tony Abbott to restore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Labor’s years of sanctimony had meanwhile helped to breed a new generation of Labor candidates who no longer cared that what counts most in a politician is not what they feel but what they do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not what they planned, but what they achieved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so poor Shorten had the first week of this election campaign knocked sideways by a conga-line of people just like D’Arcy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It started with his candidate in Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, who said she was against <b>boat</b> turnbacks — and even won moral support from Shorten’s chief rival, frontbencher Anthony Albanese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It got worse by the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next was Cathy O’Toole, Labor’s candidate in the marginal seat of Herbert, who had been photographed earlier this year holding a “Let them stay” sign in protest against <b>boat</b> people being sent to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was Michael Freelander, Labor’s candidate in the Sydney marginal seat of Macarthur, who likened the detention centre at Manus Island to a “concentration camp” and falsely claimed that this men-only centre was used to “torture” children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Knock, knock, Michael. <b>Boat</b> people “tortured” at this “concentration camp” have an option no Jew in Auschwitz ever got: they can just decide to go back home, or even to Cambodia or Papua New Guinea, and the government will open the gates and even fill their pockets with our money.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on it went. Luke Gosling, the candidate in the Darwin seat of Solomon, and Fremantle candidate Josh Wilson were the next to have been pictured at protests against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanian senator Lisa Singh damned <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s team are trying to look on the bright side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s better that this inevitable dissension played out in the first week of this long campaign and not closer to the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, hey, doesn’t it let Shorten show he’s determined to stick with the tough laws? Actually, it makes us wonder how long he can keep it up when so many of his team think those tough laws are vicious — and when he might need to do a deal with the Greens to form government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, wait. There is one more candidate in this election who has form on being weak on boats and terrorism, and who adds some context to Shorten’s trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who when Rudd was prime minister was against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who didn’t publicly back Tony Abbott ’s plan as Opposition Leader to turn back the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who warned Abbott against treating terrorism as “a bravado issue”, and bagged his proposal to strip terrorists overseas of their Australian citizenship, claiming that it raised “very big legal and practical issues”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who mocked Abbott’s attacks on the Islamic State as exaggerated, saying IS was “not Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan or Stalin’s Russia” and suggesting a “political settlement” in Syria would sort them out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That candidate? It’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull himself — the man now warning that Labor can’t be trusted to not go soft on national security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take your pick on which side can be trusted least.ANDREW BOLT HOSTS THE BOLT REPORT ON SKY NEWS LIVE AT 7 EACH WEEKNIGHT (AEST). HIS GUEST TONIGHT: ISLAM CRITIC AYAAN HIRSI ALI</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor’s campaign has been derailed as candidate after candidate have been outed as hostile to our border laws</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Bolt </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR is paying the price for promoting a childish morality that cares more about seeming good than doing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its election campaign has been derailed as Labor candidate after candidate has been outed as hostile to our border laws. At least 17 now have been revealed as critical of the Abbott government policies that actually stopped the boats and saved hundreds of lives.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, they have been hostile to the <b>boat</b> policies he claims he will not change if he wins the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, voters will say. As if. Yeah, right, agrees Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull , himself an expert on moral posturing and turning on a dime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Saturday, Peta Murphy, Labor’s candidate in Dunkley, became just the latest to embarrass Shorten, this time on national security laws as well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was exposed as having been a committee member of an activist lawyers’ group that attacked our terror laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now meet Marg D’Arcy, Labor’s candidate for Kooyong. Three years ago she suggested we “sponsor <b>asylum</b> seekers to get on safe boats” to Australia, and last year she tweeted to the ABC’s Q & A that ‘Stopping boats is not answer [sic]”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, she insisted, “it was reckless to talk about turning back boats” – which is now Labor’s official policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do feel a flicker of sympathy for Shorten, who, urged on by his cluey immigration spokesman Richard Marles, declared last year that Labor had learned its lesson from its decision in 2008 to scrap tough border controls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten said he would not repeat what Kevin Rudd did back then – weaken our laws on the alleged grounds they lacked “compassion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Check the price of Labor’s “compassion”: 1200 men, women and children drowned. Another 50,000 managed to land and taxpayers had to pay $12 billion to deal with them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, this armada was eventually bringing in thousands of people from Iran and Sri Lanka, neither country notably unsafe, and even some from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Nepal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the meantime, we have been reminded of the savage cost of admitting people we should have kept out. The Martin Place siege, the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng and the stabbing of two police in Melbourne were all committed by Muslim “refugees” or their children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet all this brutal reality has made zero impression on the thinking of many of the Left. It seems a few hundred drowned children is a small price to pay for the satisfaction they get from seeming holier than thou.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten at least has finally forced his party to back the kind of laws that it took Tony Abbott to restore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Labor’s years of sanctimony had meanwhile helped breed a new generation of Labor candidates who no longer cared that what counts most in a politician is not what they feel but what they do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s candidate in Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, said she was against <b>boat</b> turnbacks, and won support from frontbencher Anthony Albanese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next was Cathy O’Toole, Labor’s candidate in the marginal seat of Herbert, who had been photographed earlier this year holding a “Let them stay” sign in protest against <b>boat</b> people being sent to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was Michael Freelander, Labor’s candidate in the Sydney marginal seat of Macarthur, who likened the detention centre at Manus Island to a “concentration camp” .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Luke Gosling, the candidate in the Darwin seat of Solomon, and Fremantle candidate Josh Wilson were the next to have been pictured at protests against sending people to Nauru. Tasmanian senator Lisa Singh damned <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s team is looking on the bright side. It’s better that this dissension played out in the first week of the campaign and not closer to the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, hey, doesn’t it let him show he’s determined to stick with the tough laws? Actually, it makes us wonder how long he can keep it up when so many of his team think those laws are vicious – and when he might do a deal with the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, wait. There is one more candidate in this election who has form on being weak on boats and terrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who when Rudd was prime minister was against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru too. He didn’t publicly back Tony Abbott ’s plan as Opposition Leader to turn back the boats. He warned him against treating terrorism as “a bravado issue”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That candidate is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull , the man now warning that Labor can’t be trusted to not go soft on national security.ANDREW BOLT HOSTS THE BOLT REPORT ON SKY NEWS LIVE AT 7 EACH WEEKNIGHT. HIS GUEST TONIGHT: ISLAM CRITIC AYAAN HIRSI ALI</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Bolt </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR is paying the price for promoting a pathetically childish morality that cares more about seeming good, not doing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its election campaign has been derailed as Labor candidate after candidate has been outed as hostile to our border laws.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 17 now have been revealed as critical of the Abbott government policies that actually stopped the boats and saved hundreds of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, they have been hostile to the <b>boat</b> policies he claims he will not change if he wins the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, voters will say. As if.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yeah, right, agrees Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull — himself an expert on moral posturing and turning on a dime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Saturday, Peta Murphy, Labor’s candidate in Dunkley, became just the latest to embarrass Shorten, this time on national security laws as well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was exposed as having been a committee member of an activist lawyers’ group which attacked our terror laws and even complained that the mass-murdering Islamist al-Shabaah had been listed as a terrorist group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now meet today’s exhibit: Marg D’Arcy, Labor’s candidate for Kooyong. D’Arcy three years ago suggested we actually “sponsor <b>asylum</b> seekers to get on safe boats” to Australia, and last year tweeted to the ABC’s Q & A that ‘Stopping boats is not answer [sic]”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, she insisted, “it was reckless to talk about turning back boats” — which is now Labor’s official policy. In fact, Shorten says Labor even reserves the “option” of <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But who cares about Shorten, right? As D’Arcy sniffily tweeted when Shorten helped to sack her beloved prime minister, Julia Gillard, he just “blows with the wind”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do feel a flicker of sympathy for Shorten, who, urged on by his cluey immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, did belatedly declare last year that Labor had learned its lesson from its catastrophic decision in 2008 to scrap our tough border controls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten said he would not repeat what the preening prime minister Kevin Rudd did back then — weaken our laws on the alleged grounds they lacked “compassion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most press gallery journalists had cheered Rudd’s catastrophic mistake. The Age even crooned then that “a stain was removed from the soul of this nation” and “Australia began the process of restoring some of its lost humanity”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But check the price of Labor’s “compassion”: 1200 men, women and children drowned as they tried to sail here to claim Labor’s prize of a warm welcome. Another 50,000 illegal immigrants did manage to land, many taking the places of genuine refugees, and taxpayers were forced to pay $12 billion to deal with them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, this armada was eventually bringing in thousands of people from Iran and Sri Lanka, neither country notably unsafe, and even some from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Nepal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the meantime, we have been reminded of the savage cost of admitting people we should have kept out. The last three terrorist attacks here — the Martin Place siege, the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng and the stabbing of two police in Melbourne — were all committed by Muslim “refugees” or their children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet all this brutal reality — so overwhelmingly obvious — has made zero impression on the thinking of many of the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The consequences of their moral posturing are irrelevant to them. It seems that a few hundred drowned children is a small price to pay for the satisfaction the Left gets of seeming holier-than-thou.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children must drown so that Mr Activist may seem good.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as I say, I almost feel sorry for Shorten, because he at least finally forced his party to do what it should have done nearly a decade ago — back the kind of laws that it took Tony Abbott to restore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Labor’s years of sanctimony had meanwhile helped to breed a new generation of Labor candidates who no longer cared that what counts most in a politician is not what they feel but what they do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not what they planned, but what they achieved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so poor Shorten had the first week of this election campaign knocked sideways by a conga-line of people just like D’Arcy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It started with his candidate in Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, who said she was against <b>boat</b> turnbacks — and even won moral support from Shorten’s chief rival, frontbencher Anthony Albanese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It got worse by the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next was Cathy O’Toole, Labor’s candidate in the marginal seat of Herbert, who had been photographed earlier this year holding a “Let them stay” sign in protest against <b>boat</b> people being sent to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was Michael Freelander, Labor’s candidate in the Sydney marginal seat of Macarthur, who likened the detention centre at Manus Island to a “concentration camp” and falsely claimed that this men-only centre was used to “torture” children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Knock, knock, Michael. <b>Boat</b> people “tortured” at this “concentration camp” have an option no Jew in Auschwitz ever got: they can just decide to go back home, or even to Cambodia or Papua New Guinea, and the government will open the gates and even fill their pockets with our money.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on it went. Luke Gosling, the candidate in the Darwin seat of Solomon, and Fremantle candidate Josh Wilson were the next to have been pictured at protests against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanian senator Lisa Singh damned <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s team are trying to look on the bright side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s better that this inevitable dissension played out in the first week of this long campaign and not closer to the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, hey, doesn’t it let Shorten show he’s determined to stick with the tough laws? Actually, it makes us wonder how long he can keep it up when so many of his team think those tough laws are vicious — and when he might need to do a deal with the Greens to form government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, wait. There is one more candidate in this election who has form on being weak on boats and terrorism, and who adds some context to Shorten’s trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who when Rudd was prime minister was against sending <b>boat</b> people to Nauru, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who didn’t publicly back Tony Abbott ’s plan as Opposition Leader to turn back the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who warned Abbott against treating terrorism as “a bravado issue”, and bagged his proposal to strip terrorists overseas of their Australian citizenship, claiming that it raised “very big legal and practical issues”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the candidate who mocked Abbott’s attacks on the Islamic State as exaggerated, saying IS was “not Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan or Stalin’s Russia” and suggesting a “political settlement” in Syria would sort them out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That candidate? It’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull himself — the man now warning that Labor can’t be trusted to not go soft on national security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take your pick on which side can be trusted least.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANDREW BOLT hosts The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7 each weeknight. His guest tonight: Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BLOG WITH BOLT NOW blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">STAR POWER DRIVER BUSTED <span class="companylink">GOOGLE</span> OGLE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">STAR POWER</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What do counterterrorism and the Federal election have in common with Dannii Minogue?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer: Labor candidate for Cowan, Anne Aly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Curtin University</span>’s Dr Aly is kind of a big deal when it comes to counterterrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is the go-to media expert on the subject, runs a not-for-profit organisation to combat violent extremism, PaVE, is involved in about 15 similar projects and travels the world speaking to groups — you know, like the United Nations — about preventing the radicalisation of young people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her work was recognised recently at InStyle magazine’s Women of Style awards, where she won the Charity & Community prize.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was also recognised by Minogue, who attended the awards and commented later on <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What an incredible woman. I was lucky to meet her before the awards and had a dance after,” Minogue wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Aly was still coming to terms with the experience when Inside Cover called.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was extremely surreal and completely unexpected,” Dr Aly said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For the first time in my life I was speechless, and that’s saying something.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Considering Dr Aly’s impressive resume and international standing, one wonders what could possibly motivate her to enter the grubby world of politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But having spent years advising various levels of government on issues of violent extremism she realised there might be some truth to the colourful proverb about the advantages of being inside a tent when it came to urination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I always say that but I try not to because it’s pretty gross,” she laughed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Dr Aly was quick to point out she wasn’t a one-issue candidate and her politics were shaped by life experience — she comes from an immigrant family and was a single mother on a lower income.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor is she worried her pet subject will become a political football and used as a wedge against Labor during the election, a la <b>asylum</b> seekers and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wrote a 370-page book about the politics of fear, it makes a great doorstop,” she quipped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether Dr Aly wins or loses the seat of Cowan she will continue to work with the government of the day to prevent violent extremism, but count us among those who would rather see her inside the tent. DRIVER BUSTED</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Friday the 13th really was unlucky for one poor driver, now immortalised in a tweet by the WA Police Twitter account.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thankfully no one was hurt when a vehicle rear-ended a Transperth bus, which makes it OK to point out the humorous irony in hitting a bus sporting a police safety ad. Whoops. <span class="companylink">GOOGLE</span> OGLE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Photo-bombing is the practice of sneaking into someone else’s photograph undetected, so the intrusion isn’t noticed until the photo is reviewed later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Photo-bombing Google’s Street View cars — the cars that the tech giant uses to provide images and data for its mapping service — is taking it to the next level.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s exactly what a cheeky tradie did when a <span class="companylink">Google</span> car drove down Flourish Lane in Craigie last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was spotted by an IC reader last week. Well played, sir.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eight losses in a row for the Dockers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">@WillHillAus WIN!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tag your <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">photos #ICWest for a chance to see the epic X-Men Apocalypse (out Thursday).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week’s winner: @milesp7</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The jokes are coming thick and fast now the Dockers’ losing streak has extended to eight games. Isn’t it ironic that Freo didn’t get much national attention when they were winning but everyone wants to talk about the club losing. @sue_chung</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This Instagrammer looks a lot more Zen than we feel on Monday morning. Granted, there are probably some Zen advantages to doing yoga on Rockingham Beach as opposed to sitting at one’s desk. Tag your photos, Zen or otherwise, #icwest to share them with WA.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM won't back Brandis call</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>545 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declined to back a call by his Attorney-General, George Brandis, that a Labor candidate in a key Victorian seat should be disendorsed because she was once part of a campaign that questioned the need for stronger national security laws.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With both parties dredging through years' old statements by rival candidates to discredit them on national security and <b>asylum</b> seekers, Senator Brandis said that Peta Murphy, who is trying to wrest the seat of Dunkley from the Liberal Party, should be dumped because of her "tolerant attitude" towards terrorist organisations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2009, Ms Murphy was a signatory on a submission by Liberty Victoria sent to then Labor attorney-general Robert McClelland calling on him to deny the <span class="companylink">Australian Security Intelligence Organisation</span> and the police stronger powers to detain terror suspects without charge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when asked twice by reporters on Sunday whether he believed Ms Murphy should be dumped, Mr Turnbull said: "I'm not going to comment on the candidate, the Labor candidate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is a matter for Mr Shorten. This is a test for Mr Shorten, the Attorney-General has called on him to disendorse the candidate," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten accused the government of audacity, noting the Liberal candidate for the seat of Goldstein, Tim Wilson, previously the Human Rights Commissioner, argued against the latest tranche of national security laws that Senator Brandis introduced last year. These laws helped with the charging last week of five Melbourne men who sought to make a <b>boat</b> trip to Indonesia to join <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"George Brandis, if he wants to start talking about disendorsing candidates, how about Tim Wilson," Mr Shorten said. "[He] questioned Mr Brandis' security laws last year ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Our capable candidate in Dunkley, Peta Murphy, was a member of Liberty Victoria. The overall organisation sent a letter about matters. They weren't her personal views."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the increasing tit-for-tat war, Labor also furnished a long list of past quotes from current senior Liberal figures, including Mr Turnbull, in which they criticised proposed tougher anti-terrorism laws. For example, in 2012, when Labor was in power, both Mr Turnbull and deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop argued against the retention of metadata, even though the Abbott government went on to mandate its retention for two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The idea that the government should collect and retain the online records of all Australians for a period of two years, I think, is disturbing. It appears to go too far and I would have to be persuaded that this was a reasonable request," Ms Bishop said four years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull expressed "grave misgivings about the proposal".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has also been sifting through the past of Labor candidates and so far has identified about 20 who have expressed support over past years and months for the humane treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers and misgivings about offshore detention and turning back boats. It is building a dossier with which to wound Labor throughout the campaign because the <b>asylum</b>-seeker issue remains a potent vote winner for the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Key pointsAttorney-General calls for Labor candidate to be disendorsed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister calls Peta Murphy candidacy 'a matter for Mr Shorten'.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten wants Wilson dumped</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom McIlroy   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>400 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Terrorism laws - Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has hit back at attacks on Labor over <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, singling out prominent Liberal Tim Wilson for his criticism of tough terrorism laws.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Speaking at Kingscliff in the northern NSW marginal electorate of Richmond, Mr Shorten said the Coalition should consider dumping the former human rights commissioner as its candidate in the Victorian seat of Goldstein for questioning national security laws last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The comments followed Attorney-General George Brandis calling on Labor to disendorse its candidate in the Victorian seat of Dunkley, Peta Murphy, over her support for a 2009 Liberal Victoria submission arguing against new powers for ASIO and police to detain terrorism suspects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The apparent change in Opposition tactics comes after a week of Labor candidates being forced to defend previous support for an end to offshore <b>asylum</b> seeker detention and regional processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government jumped on each individual case to paint Labor as weak on national security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"George Brandis, if he wants to start talking about disendorsing candidates, how about Tim Wilson," Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"[He] questioned Mr Brandis' security laws last year ... our capable candidate in Dunkley, Peta Murphy, was a member of Liberty Victoria. The overall organisation sent a letter about matters. They weren't her personal views."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He accused Mr Brandis of trying to distract debate away from policies. "We're not going to fall for George Brandis or any other Coalition minister's sort of distraction tactics."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> revealed on Sunday the Liberal candidate who rolled Bronwyn Bishop, Jason Falinski, previously described <b>asylum</b> seekers who came to Australia by <b>boat</b> as the victims of pirates and crooks and said they should be welcomed rather than shunned. In an opinion piece in May 2001, Mr Falinski advocated "freeing up" borders. "George Brandis has now got a break out," Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He's got Mr Falinski … calling for a policy that is quite different from what Mr Brandis espouses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He's got Tim Wilson of the Libertarian Right running around complaining about anti-terror laws. This government wants to distract Australians from the real issues."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten was visiting a surf lifesaving club to announce $41 million in funding to help improve water safety education. He said the curriculums in states and territories were a "patchwork" and better coordination would save lives.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP going to water on <b>asylum</b> seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peta Credlin </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>662 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>62</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WE’VE seen this week that it isn’t just the senior Labor leaders who lack ticker on boats. At last count 16 MPs or candidates have openly defied Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If they’re prepared to go rogue before an election, there’s every chance the boats will start again if Labor is put back in charge of our borders.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Labor wins the election, the people smugglers would quickly test the resolve of the new government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Doubtless, there’d be a barrage of human rights activists – including some government lawyers – again claiming that turnbacks are illegal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The would-be foreign minister and deputy prime minister Tanya Plibersek says turnbacks are “something we hope we’ll never have to do”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She didn’t even attend the vote on this issue at Labor’s national conference. I have a message for Tanya Plibersek – you can’t absent yourself from tough decisions in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least Bill Shorten’s leadership rival, Anthony Albanese, turned up – and voted against turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must be in an election campaign because Labor is yet again saying it will be tough on border protection. Their record says otherwise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard dismantling John Howard’s border protection policies was that more than 1200 people drowned at sea, 50,000 people arrived illegally in more than 800 illegal boats and more than $11 billion of your money was wasted on border protection budget blowouts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a humanitarian catastrophe, a national security disaster and a budget calamity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back in 2007, the Coalition warned that Labor’s proposed coast guard would become a “coast guide” to lead people smuggler boats to Australia. That’s exactly what happened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once Labor proudly announced the end of Howard’s “Pacific Solution”, in mid-2008 (surprise surprise – the people smugglers heard the message too) the boats restarted and Australian navy and customs vessels were routinely shepherding them to Christmas ­Island or on board to deliver them to the dock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leaders lined up to argue that turning boats around was impossible: that it was illegal; that it was impractical; that Indonesia wouldn’t allow it; and that the navy didn’t like it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All along, the real problem was that Labor didn’t like it. Labor simply lacked the resolve for what was needed to stop the deaths and to keep our country safe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Tony Abbott didn’t just have a policy to stop the boats. He had the will to make it happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In opposition, Abbott and Scott Morrison promised to restore temporary protection visas so illegal <b>boat</b> people never got permanent residency; to reopen offshore processing centres so <b>boat</b> people never made it to Australia; and to turn boats around so <b>boat</b> people never got beyond Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In government, Abbott added a vital new element to the old Howard policies: he procured orange life rafts that could be used to return would-be illegal arrivals who’d scuttled their own boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This idea did not come from experts. It came from a prime minister and a government that simply wasn’t going to be overcome – not by the greed of people smugglers, not by the determination of would-be illegal migrants, not by the Canberra media commentators who said it couldn’t be done, not by the petulant nationalism of populist MPs in Jakarta, and certainly not by the defeatism of the former Australian government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same officials who sat around the National Security Committee table advising a Labor government that couldn’t stop the boats were the officials who advised a Coalition government that did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a salutary illustration of the importance of leadership and a reminder that officials (however expert) take their cue from the govern­ment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Watch SKY NEWS political contributor Peta Credlin appear exclusively on The Bolt Report, Ch601, Mondays, 7pm</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gsec : State Security Measures/Policies | ghutrk : Human Trafficking | gcat : Political/General News | gcns : National/Public Security | gcom : Society/Community | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020160514ec5f0001h</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020160515ec5f0006j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bill’s boats plan is sinking fast</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PETA CREDLIN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>832 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WE’VE seen this week that it isn’t just the senior Labor leaders who lack ticker on boats. At last count, 16 MPs or candidates have openly defied Bill Shorten. If they’re prepared to go rogue before an election, there’s every chance the boats will start again if Labor is put back in charge of our borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Labor wins the election, the people smugglers would quickly test the resolve of the new government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Doubtless, there’d be a barrage of human rights activists, including some government lawyers, again claiming that turnbacks are illegal. The would-be foreign minister and deputy prime minister Tanya Plibersek says that turnbacks are “something we hope we’ll never have to do”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She didn’t even attend the vote on this issue at Labor’s ­national conference. I have a message for Tanya Plibersek: You can’t absent yourself from tough decisions in ­government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least Bill Shorten’s leadership rival, ­Anthony Albanese, turned up and voted against turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must be in an election campaign because Labor is yet again saying it will be tough on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its record says otherwise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard dismantling John Howard’s border protection policies was that over 1200 people drowned at sea, 50,000 people arrived illegally in more than 800 illegal boats and over $11 billion of your money was wasted on border protection budget blowouts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a humanitarian ­cat-astrophe, a national security disaster and a budget calamity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back in 2007, the Coalition warned that Labor’s proposed coastguard would become a “coastguide” to lead people smuggler boats to Australia. That’s exactly what happened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once Labor proudly ­announced the end of ­Howard’s “Pacific Solution”, in mid-2008, (surprise surprise — the people smugglers heard the message too) the boats ­re-started and Australian navy and customs vessels were ­routinely shepherding them to Christmas Island or on board to deliver them to the dock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leaders lined up to argue that turning boats around was impossible: that it was illegal; that it was impractical; that Indonesia wouldn’t allow it; and that the navy didn’t like it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All along, the real problem was that Labor didn’t like it. It lacked the ­resolve for what was needed to stop the deaths and to keep our country safe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Tony Abbott didn’t just have a policy to stop the boats. He had the will to make it happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In opposition, Abbott and Scott Morrison promised to ­restore temporary protection visas so that illegal <b>boat</b> people never got permanent ­resi-dency; to re-open offshore processing centres so that <b>boat</b> people never made it to Australia and to turn boats around so that <b>boat</b> people never got beyond Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In government, Abbott added a vital new element to the old Howard policies: he procured orange life rafts that could be used to return would-be illegal arrivals who’d scuttled their own boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This idea did not come from experts. It came from a prime minister and a government that simply wasn’t going to be overcome: not by the greed of people smugglers, not by the determination of would-be ­illegal migrants, not by media commentators who said it couldn’t be done, not by the petulant ­nationalism of populist MPs in Jakarta, and not by the defeatism of the former Australian government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same officials who sat around the National Security Committee table advising a Labor government that couldn’t stop the boats were the officials who advised a Coalition government that did. It was a salutary illustration of the importance of leadership and a reminder that officials take their cue from government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I have a message for Tanya Plibersek – you can’t absent yourself from tough decisions in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Bill Shorten’s got to be asking how so many people who oppose his policy on turnbacks were preselected but the answer is simple – Labor’s branches are full of <b>refugee</b> activists who just don’t believe in turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Tony Abbott didn’t just have a policy to stop the boats. He had the will to make it happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Why should people trust a government that raids their personal, private savings whenever it needs money</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THUMBS UP Peter Dutton is one of the Coalition’s best performers – he’s done his job keeping our borders safe and he’s been out every day highlighting the divisions within Labor when it comes to policy over boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THUMBS DOWNWhat started out on Monday as an indulgent split from Labor’s turnback policy by its candidate for Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, set off a disastrous chain of events for Bill Shorten. Despite a good week on the hustings, he was smashed each day by yet another ill-disciplined MP or candidate who was weak on border protection.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gsec : State Security Measures/Policies | ghutrk : Human Trafficking | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gcat : Political/General News | gcns : National/Public Security | gcom : Society/Community | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020160515ec5f0006j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020160514ec5f0002s" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Extra</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>This election is less Michael Bay, more arthouse</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Adam Gartrell   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>865 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not so long ago federal election campaigns were like Hollywood blockbusters: big budget extravaganzas that moved at such a cracking pace people didn't have time to pick up on all the glaring inconsistencies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every other day would bring some grand new spending announcement - $34 billion in tax cuts here, a laptop for every child there - designed to set the agenda, dominate the news and distract from the gaffes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were the political equivalent of a Michael Bay movie: fast, explosive and made for people with a short attention span.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This time things are different. Election campaign 2016 is less Michael Bay and more experimental arthouse film.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's slow and languid and long. There's no budget for alien invasions or robot dinosaurs; this is more a character study of two men undergoing some sort of gruelling ordeal, like a trek through the Siberian tundra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a grim test of endurance. Both Turnbull and Shorten will suffer, but only one will survive to see the end credits roll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a test for the audience, too. Because while art films can be satisfying and illuminating and a welcome palate-cleanser after 10 squillion superhero spectacles, they can also be really damn boring.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So it is with this one. One week in and it's already turning into a monotonous slog. And there are seven weeks to go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seven. Weeks. To go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Money was short in 2010 and 2013 too - the global financial crisis and the end of the mining boom put the kibosh on the cash-splash elections commonplace in the Howard years - but those campaigns were mercifully short. At 35 and 34 days respectively, they were three weeks shorter than this one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leaders are quite wisely pacing themselves. Neither was able to seize much momentum in the first week, although if I had to pick a winner I'd say Shorten had a better week than Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Spending most of his time in Queensland, the Opposition Leader looked like he was quite enjoying himself. He performed well enough and stuck assiduously to his education message.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It didn't all go to plan. There was another eruption of Labor division over <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy - specifically <b>boat</b> turnbacks - which is bad for Shorten for two reasons: disunity is death in any campaign, and the Labor <b>boat</b> catastrophe is the last thing he wants people to be thinking about. Apart, perhaps, from Labor's ill-fated alliance with the Greens, a topic that also reared its head as thoughts turned to the possibility that this interminable race could end in another hung parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor also had some trouble in Western Australia, with the party forced to dump a controversial union-backed candidate just four days in after it emerged he hadn't properly disclosed his criminal past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in this opening act, Shorten offered a more disciplined pitch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister criss-crossed the east coast, covering more ground than his opponent but losing focus along the way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Shorten at least attempted to set the agenda by making it appear that he had new things to say - reheating and fleshing out elements of his education policy - Turnbull simply soldiered on with his budget sell.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The problem being the budget doesn't give him a great deal to talk about. Which is perhaps why the debate over whether the government's superannuation changes are retrospective quickly came to dominate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That caused an outbreak of disunity on his own side of politics because the changes attack his top-end-of-town base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Elsewhere, his new youth unemployment intern program came under doubt; he was named in the Panama Papers, thus reminding everyone he's filthy rich, and then he chose to eat lunch at an exclusive men's-only gentleman's club in Melbourne anyway; and Tony Abbott's ghost continued to haunt him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, by the time we finally get to polling day - if we survive that long - week one will be long forgotten. Much like weeks two, three, four and five, probably.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After that, the campaign will hopefully start to ramp up - even art films usually have some kind of climax or denouement. But there's a lot more repetition and tedium to endure before then.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If I had to compare this campaign to one art film in particular, I'd be inclined to name a Swedish movie called Logistics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clocking in at 51,420 minutes - that's 857 hours - it's the longest film ever made.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Released in 2012 by a Swedish duo, it traces the production cycle of a pedometer, from Chinese factory floor to Stockholm shelf, in real time. Actually, I think it does it in reverse but I can't say for sure - I've somehow never managed to find a spare 36 days to sit down and watch it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sounds painfully dull but there's a good chance it's more exciting than this campaign. If you're so inclined you could start watching it today and when you're finished ... there will still be 11 days to go until polling day.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gvote : Elections | e211 : Government Budget/Taxation | gcat : Political/General News | gpol : Domestic Politics | gvote1 : National/Presidential Elections | e21 : Government Finance | ecat : Economic News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>sydney : Sydney | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020160514ec5f0002s</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020160514ec5f0001r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Welcome <b>boat</b> people, said Liberal</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»ADAM GARTRELL   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>231 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FEDERAL ELECTION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberal Party candidate who rolled Bronwyn Bishop described <b>asylum</b> seekers who came to Australia by <b>boat</b> as the victims of pirates and crooks and said they should be welcomed not shunned.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jason Falinski, who won Liberal pre-selection to replace Mrs Bishop for the blue-ribbon Sydney seat of Mackellar last month, wrote an opinion piece advocating in favour of "freeing up borders". In The Australian Financial Review article published in May 2001, Mr Falinski wrote Australia needed a larger, more liberal immigration program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He took aim at then-immigration minister Philip Ruddock and criticised the country's leaders for pandering to "xenophobic tendencies".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Falinski says he now supports his party's policy "wholeheartedly". The Coalition sought to exploit Labor divisions over <b>asylum</b> seeker policy in the first week of the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Falinski article largely focuses on the economic arguments for increased migration, it also touches on the "moral argument".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"How many of us would voluntarily choose to pay thousands of dollars to sit on the bottom of a leaky <b>boat</b> for months on end to be dropped off in another country where we know no one and do not speak the language?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is not something that we, as a nation, should shun, but rather welcome as an affirmation of our nation."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020160514ec5f0001r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020160514ec5f0000n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Protester disrupts Shorten speech</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»TOM McILROY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>534 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Queensland</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FEDERAL ELECTION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A protester angry about Labor's <b>asylum</b> seeker policies has interrupted a speech by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten on the campaign trail.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brisbane teacher Adrian Skerritt started shouting during Mr Shorten's speech to hundreds of Labor members at an education event in Brisbane, calling for an end to Labor's support for offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 48-year-old stood on his chair as he yelled, before being surrounded by party officials as Mr Shorten's speech came to an awkward end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an impromptu press conference afterwards, Mr Skerritt said Australia's education system should be opened to the children of <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the children of Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers in the 1970s had benefited the Australian community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We welcomed people in the 1970s. We can do the same thing, and we can do it now," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Skerritt said he was not a member of any political party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is a former Socialist Alliance candidate in Queensland state elections and has protested at the G20.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten — who faced some division among Labor candidates over the party's <b>asylum</b> seeker policies this week — continued his speech during the protests, with party supporters cheering and offering a standing ovation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten later said a Labor government would do nothing to restart the "evil trade" of people smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will not reopen the seaway between Java and Christmas Island," he vowed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten said Labor would not allow a renewed set of <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is an issue which we've seen be a toxic matter in Australian politics for a long time but Labor will stop the people smugglers," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We won't see the criminal gangs of south-east Asia put vulnerable people in vessels which sink at sea and exploit their desire to come to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will not reopen the seaway between Java and Christmas Island and my party knows, and every candidate knows, that if we form a government after July 2 we will be resolute against defeating that evil trade. That should never be used as an excuse to create this problem of indefinite detention, which the Liberals have allowed to fester and grow on their watch."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten said Labor would send people arriving on boats to nations in the region for processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also defended Labor's candidate in the south-east Melbourne seat of Dunkley, Peta Murphy, who joined a group of lawyers speaking out against enhanced powers for ASIO and police to detain terror suspects without charge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The comments were made in a submission to government in 2009, but attracted media attention this week as Labor candidates were questioned on their support for tough border protection policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attorney-General George Brandis said the views showed a "tolerant attitude" to terror groups.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Murphy, seeking to replace outgoing former Coalition minister Bruce Bilson in the seat, said she no longer held the views.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The comments that have been attributed to her were several years ago and it was in a cover letter from an organisation that she was a member of," Mr Shorten said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | brisbn : Brisbane | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales | queensl : Queensland</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020160514ec5f0000n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160514ec5f00028" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Canberra judge rocks the <b>boat</b> with role in PNG detention centres ruling</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Matthew Raggatt   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>505 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra judge rocks the <b>boat</b> with role in PNG detention centres ruling By Matthew Raggatt</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former chief justice Terence Higgins.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was a unique Canberra connection to the landmark and disruptive decision by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court to order the closure of the Manus Island detention centre last month. Justice Terry Higgins presided over many a trial where an accused was acquitted during 23 years on the ACT Supreme Court bench, but nothing could compare to his critical judgment that has mandated 898 men - charged with nothing - must be released from the Australian-funded centre. Leaders of the Canberra legal profession were not surprised to learn of the former ACT chief justice's decision to uphold the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers' constitutional right to personal liberty. ACT Law Society president Martin Hockridge said as a solicitor, barrister and judge he had always</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">been a forward thinker. "He's very much been a champion of human rights," he said. "There was a farewell dinner for three family-law-based justices after the decision came out, and it was certainly noted [then] that one of our very own had made the decision, so there is a degree of pride from the Canberra legal community. "The Law Society is generally against mandatory detention no matter what the circumstances are." Justice Higgins, who spent a decade as chief justice, could have retreated to a comfortable life away from the public eye after his retirement in September 2013. But in March last year, aged 71, he became the most senior retired</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">non-citizen judge to be appointed to the PNG bench. Now he has been a key part of a decision that has led the PNG government to commit to closing the detention centre, and which could lead to compensation claims of more than $1 billion from those illegally detained, a PNG <b>refugee</b> lawyer has estimated. One of only two of the five judges to deliver reasons for his decisions, Justice Higgins ruled an amendment to the PNG constitution aimed at making the Australian-PNG deterrent arrangement an exception to the personal liberty right was invalid, because it breached technical requirements to change the foundation PNG law. ACT Bar Association president</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ken Archer, who appeared many times before Justice Higgins as a prosecutor and later a defence barrister, said it was encouraging to see human rights being put "front and centre" in a legal decision. "He's a good legal mind, and he always looked very closely at the interaction between individuals and the state," he said. "He often looked at the exercise of police powers." On Thursday PNG immigration authorities said the men were no longer in detention, as they could now visit the main town on the island and were being bussed in and out of the centre each day. For Justice Higgins, a final retirement must come by 2018, when he hits the maximum PNG judicial age of 75.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RF</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>78014781</td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull hits the ground running but has some setbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>882 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>48</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Week 1 of the marathon 2016 election campaign is drawing to a close. Andrew Tillett and Phoebe Wearne have been on the road with the leaders. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday VERDICT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Monday</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To kick off the campaign, Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten both made their way to Queensland, where there are a swag of seats that will be crucial to who occupies The Lodge after July 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister hit the ground running, visiting three seats in Brisbane, including an early morning visit to the fruit markets, where he recalled his days lugging watermelons in a part-time job while studying at university. Mr Shorten headed north to Cairns, where he and Aboriginal WA senator Pat Dodson visited a primary school and announced a policy to boost the number of indigenous teachers in Australian classrooms. He later began making his way down the Queensland coast, flying into Townsville. Mr Shorten’s campaign bus, captained by NSW senator Sam Dastyari, made its debut in Cairns before beginning its 2½ week-long journey to Canberra. Tuesday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull continued to spruik his small business tax cuts plan, visiting a hardware store in the marginal Brisbane seat of Forde before making a surprise incursion into former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan’s seat to a private hospital. Greens leader Richard Di Natale opened the door to a re-run of the Gillard-era Labor-Greens minority government, but Mr Shorten ruled out going into a partnership with any party. He visited a school in Townsville to talk about education funding, but he faced questions on the issue of <b>boat</b> arrivals after a photo emerged of local Labor candidate Cathy O’Toole at an <b>asylum</b> seeker protest. Wednesday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM made his first foray into the crucial battleground of western Sydney but the visit quickly became short-lived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ghost of last year’s leadership change re-emerged when Lindsay MP Fiona Scott refused at a press conference with Mr Turnbull to say how she voted, amid suggestions local grassroots Liberals are furious at her perceived disloyalty to Tony Abbott .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM quickly cancelled a planned street walk at a nearby shopping centre after the press conference went pear shaped. He also had to defend plans to crimp super tax breaks for the rich, which is emerging as a sleeper issue among the coalition’s base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten continued his tour of regional Queensland, flying into Mackay to visit a school and talk about Labor’s targeted teaching policy before returning to Townsville.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the wake of Mr Turnbull cancelling his street walk, Mr Shorten made a beeline for North Ward shopping centre, where he ordered some coffees and came across 40-year <span class="companylink">Australian Workers Union</span> member Jim Gleeson, who was all too happy to tell reporters that Mr Shorten would stick up for "battlers". Thursday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Campaigning in Melbourne, the PM visited a brewery then a defence supplies manufacturing firm to again talk small business, free trade and innovation. But his first encounter with an angry voter overshadowed the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Single mum “Melinda” upbraided Mr Turnbull over family benefits and education funding but the PM handled the situation well, hearing her out patiently. Labor’s campaign in WA was rocked by the dumping of MUA official Chris Brown as its candidate for Fremantle over the former wharfie’s failure to disclose convictions from the 1980s. Mr Shorten backed the ALP national executive’s disendorsement of Mr Brown. Mr Shorten’s wife Chloe joined Mr Shorten’s campaign in Rockhampton in the marginal electorate of Capricornia, where the pair visited a primary school and posed for photographs with some cattle after pledging funds to the region’s Beef Week event. It was Mr Shorten’s 49th birthday, so he and Chloe shared a slice of mud cake at a local bakery and did a street walk through a local strip mall. Labor officially endorsed Fremantle deputy mayor Josh Wilson as the candidate for Fremantle. Friday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both leaders ended the week in western Sydney where they went head-to-head in their first televised campaign debate — a town hall style forum in front of 100 undecided voters. Earlier Mr Turnbull made his first campaign promise, pledging $43 million to extend a rail line in Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his top hat reputation is proving hard to shake, with Mr Abbott’s former chief of staff Peta Credlin saying cancelling the street walk made him look like “Mr Harbourside Mansion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten visited his sixth school in five days — a girls school in western Sydney — as he continued to spruik Labor’s education policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He announced funds for teaching scholarships to encourage recent graduates with science, technology, engineering and maths degrees to become STEM teachers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He brushed off threats from the real estate industry of a campaign warning families and homeowners that Labor’s negative gearing policy would hurt the economy. VERDICT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite a couple of setbacks and a lack of campaign promises, Mr Turnbull won the first week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr Shorten led the way on policy, Labor’s efforts were undermined by splits over border protection and the messy dumping of Mr Brown in Fremantle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But better to have these stumbles now than in the campaign’s dying days.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Turnbull has changed few Abbott-era policies.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I t's not Bill Shorten's fault that Labor is susceptible to the charge that, come what may, it will be weaker on <b>refugee</b> policy than the Coalition. It's true. This was on display this week as various Labor candidates, particularly from the left, were outed for being at protests against the treatment of <b>asylum</b>-seekers in our overseas concentration camps. Shorten has done everything he can to try to neutralise the issue. He doesn't even think reference to concentration camps is helpful or polite. He even does things for which he is not exactly politically famous, such as take some risks. He took a policy to the ALP conference which effectively bound Labor to the Coalition's policy, especially with tow-backs and the determination that no <b>boat</b> person would be allowed to settle in Australia. As importantly, he has made frank admissions that the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd governments got their <b>boat</b> people policies wrong. Tony Abbott had it right. It was open to Labor to promise that it, nonetheless, would be more compassionate and humane in administering the camps it had set up in client states, but even then fears of being thought ambivalent or lily- livered prevented that. A good many Labor folk, particularly of the left, opposed the Shorten policy. They hate themselves for paying lip service to it and tell critics this, off the record of course. Showing guts would only be suicidal. They are bound, because majority rules, at least when Shorten has the numbers. Shorten has allowed no wriggle room. The policy is as close as anything to something he actually believes in and counts as a conviction. That's because it is supported by opinion polls. Others are agonised but pragmatic. Perhaps Shorten cannot win votes by his policy but there are voters out there who will vote against Labor if they think that Labor is going to be significantly softer on the issue. So long as they think that Labor won't revert, they might vote on other issues, such as Labor's health or welfare policies. Such voters know that a significant minority in the party hate the Coalition policy. But while they believe that a majority is chastened by Labor's past failures and is determined to atone, they might think Labor simply less better. The obvious determination of Shorten to hold firm may be reassurance enough, particularly given that the issue is hardly in their face every day. That's the beauty of having the <b>asylum</b>-seekers rotting on islands thousands of kilometres away, only occasionally nagging our consciences when there is some act of self-harm, or cruelty or mismanagement by the authorities. Labor does not expect that anyone will convert to Labor because of its <b>boat</b>-people policies. At best, it hopes that the fact there is not a cigarette paper's difference between Labor and Liberal on the subject means it will not actuate anti-Labor votes. The chances are that there are at least as many Australians who would vote for Labor if it had a more compassionate policy, as there are who would vote against Labor unless its policy mirrored the Coalition. More than anything, that is the source of the voting strength of the Greens. But, Labor realists think, those who vote Greens must end up preferencing Labor before the Coalition. Why? In part because Labor stands ideologically between them and the Coalition. But they recognise too that at least some Labor people would like to be more compassionate, even if they lack the guts to say so, or to rebel against their party's policy. While Shorten is leader, this sentimentality is misplaced. Voting for, or preferencing Labor, is no less likely to cause a continuation of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To date, neither Turnbull nor Shorten inspires real hope From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>refugee</b> policy than voting for the Coalition. If the lily-livered types that Malcolm Turnbull or the Coalition claim will seek to undermine the policy were in the least bit effectual, they would have succeeded by now. Actually one thing which could further assist Shorten on the issue is by capitalising on a strong feeling, on both sides of politics, that Turnbull, given his druthers, would be rather less gung-ho on <b>refugee</b> policy than he pretends to be. While Turnbull did nothing disloyal on <b>refugee</b> policy while Abbott was prime minister, an impression was created that on this, as well as national security policy, one could expect to see a more tolerant, liberal and humane approach under a Turnbull government. But any such hope was dashed almost immediately after the party turned to Turnbull when it despaired of Abbott. Turnbull agreed that the policy was drastic, and perhaps distasteful. But he argued that it was absolutely necessary, if only to save people from drowning. He has tended to portray himself as the humanitarian, saving foolish <b>boat</b> people from themselves, rather than as the person responding to those who simply hate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">uninvited guests, or Muslims, or people not like us. This is a later-found justification for the Coalition's policy - it began with simple opposition to uncontrolled entry of strangers. But it has become a handy refuge for those (not including Abbott) on both sides of politics for whom the moral considerations about ill-treatment of refugees weigh heavily. Turnbull's hard line on refugees is all of a one with other unexpected hard lines, including the continuation of policies on same-sex marriage, appeasement of moral conservatives on school bullying programs, climate change and the republic. As even the man he vanquished has commented, Turnbull has changed few Abbott-era policies and has, so far at least, done little to impose policies rather more consistent with his moral and economic liberalism. Always an object of suspicion to his own party's right wing, he has squandered much of the goodwill from the centre and left that he had enjoyed up to the time he took power, by his efforts to appease people he can never hope to please. Turnbull and Shorten will be working hard to maintain voter interest over a long, drawn-out campaign. But it is with issues such as <b>refugee</b> policy - and perhaps same- sex marriage and action on climate change - that there are already clear signs of why</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">this is as much an election about character as about policy or philosophies. Turnbull is a quite different character and personality from Abbott. He is less divisive, more serene, and, if by personality transplant, more consultative, steady and more open to argument, more likely to listen. He promised to treat the electorate with respect and with argument rather than slogans. But he has clearly disappointed many of those who were initially delirious when he replaced Abbott. First there was the failure to change unpopular policies and styles. Just as big a problem was a style of appearing to dither on economic policy, particularly over taxation options and, it seemed, a tendency to run away from hard decisions. His Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has struggled in any event, but on a number of occasions has worked hard to put hard policy options onto the public agenda, only to see Turnbull frightened off by immediate reaction from the public or the lobbies. Turnbull, like Donald Trump, has commanded a certain respect for having become richer during his business career, but this has not seemed to make him more self-confident in economic management. Moreover, he has at times seemed merely the crude politician, using arguments he knows to be specious (for example over the impact of reverse gearing proposals).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At this early stage of the election campaign Turnbull's problems are not about particular policies or programs, of style, the state of the economy or whether the Coalition is thought to have delivered. More important is his very authenticity. Is this the real Turnbull on display? Or is it merely a wax cut-out, parroting Abbott policies if in a slightly more competent way? If the latter, was the changeover worth the effort and the grief? Does the failure to impose his own personality and philosophy on his government reflect some sort of Faustian bargain, whereby he achieved status by promising to change nothing? Or is it a courage matter? Does it reflect an actual want of ideas - an unexpected and disappointing incapacity to be the sort of leader he seemed to be? It's not merely a matter of who the "real" Malcolm is. It's also a question of whether he has abiding ideas, ideals and philosophy. Whether, indeed, he still has passion for the things that once seemed to matter. If voters come to see him as a fake, perhaps as someone who sold his soul to get into the Lodge, he can neither hope to maintain the support of his party nor of the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull is already campaigning rather more for conservative than middle ground, in effect against a suspicious and unfriendly</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">right in his own party. His supporters will argue, no doubt, that he can be "himself" only after he has won an election in his own right, and that he must "respect" the achievements and programs of Abbott. But a Turnbull who wins election on that basis has no licence to change, and won't be allowed to. Shorten himself has substance and authenticity problems. He too had a career before politics, and has wielded great power. But unlike Turnbull, his rise occurred without the public's gaining much feel for him, for his character, philosophy, ideas, ideals or instincts. What they know, particularly about how he used his union leadership to advance his own interests, hardly inspires confidence. Shorten can mouth zingers, slogans, thoughts for the day, and off-the-stump declarations of how he is a champion of the working class, but is not much for faking sincerity or for inspiring. Doggedness is his highest virtue. There's no doubt that Shorten is, like Turnbull, competent enough for the routine administration of government, for rationing resources, at helping draw up budgets, and in chairing meetings. He was an able enough minister, and, as Leader of the Opposition has done a fairly good job in drafting policies for the campaign, and, significantly, in out-flanking the Coalition</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">on economic management. The real question is whether either Turnbull or Shorten can chart a course for 10 years hence, for a time when, perhaps, they are still prime minister. Like Turnbull, Shorten is fine on his feet, even if he too is a poor speech reader and is better off the cuff. Like Turnbull, Shorten is actively disliked by most of his colleagues, not least for a long history of ruthless and remorseless self- interest, betrayals and abuse of friendships. When he falls it will be far and he will not be much mourned by colleagues. He is not so actively disliked by the public - although Coalition campaigning on his union record will not help. But he has yet to develop the confidence or the rapport that Bob Hawke did, and Paul Keating, and Kim Beazley - heavens, even Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard did. He's been Leader of the Opposition for three years. But no one yet could associate him with any abiding idea or explain what he's really about. All we sense is that he is not really passionate about anything he says he is passionate about. If Shorten or Turnbull are destined to be great, it is not yet apparent. It should have been by now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Come early July, at least one of them is stuffed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>refugee</b> policy than voting for the Coalition. If the lily-livered types that Malcolm Turnbull or the Coalition claim will seek to undermine the policy were in the least bit effectual, they would have succeeded by now. Actually one thing which could further assist Shorten on the issue is by capitalising on a strong feeling, on both sides of politics, that Turnbull, given his druthers, would be rather less gung-ho on <b>refugee</b> policy than he pretends to be. While Turnbull did nothing disloyal on <b>refugee</b> policy while Abbott was prime minister, an impression was created that on this, as well as national security policy, one could expect to see a more tolerant, liberal and humane approach under a Turnbull government. But any such hope was dashed almost immediately after the party turned to Turnbull when it despaired of Abbott. Turnbull agreed that the policy was drastic, and perhaps distasteful. But he argued that it was absolutely necessary, if only to save people from drowning. He has tended to portray himself as the humanitarian, saving foolish <b>boat</b> people from themselves, rather than as the person responding to those who simply hate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">uninvited guests, or Muslims, or people not like us. This is a later-found justification for the Coalition's policy - it began with simple opposition to uncontrolled entry of strangers. But it has become a handy refuge for those (not including Abbott) on both sides of politics for whom the moral considerations about ill-treatment of refugees weigh heavily. Turnbull's hard line on refugees is all of a one with other unexpected hard lines, including the continuation of policies on same-sex marriage, appeasement of moral conservatives on school bullying programs, climate change and the republic. As even the man he vanquished has commented, Turnbull has changed few Abbott-era policies and has, so far at least, done little to impose policies rather more consistent with his moral and economic liberalism. Always an object of suspicion to his own party's right wing, he has squandered much of the goodwill from the centre and left that he had enjoyed up to the time he took power, by his efforts to appease people he can never hope to please. Turnbull and Shorten will be working hard to maintain voter interest over a long, drawn-out campaign. But it is with issues such as <b>refugee</b> policy - and perhaps same- sex marriage and action on climate change - that there are already clear signs of why</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">this is as much an election about character as about policy or philosophies. Turnbull is a quite different character and personality from Abbott. He is less divisive, more serene, and, if by personality transplant, more consultative, steady and more open to argument, more likely to listen. He promised to treat the electorate with respect and with argument rather than slogans. But he has clearly disappointed many of those who were initially delirious when he replaced Abbott. First there was the failure to change unpopular policies and styles. Just as big a problem was a style of appearing to dither on economic policy, particularly over taxation options and, it seemed, a tendency to run away from hard decisions. His Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has struggled in any event, but on a number of occasions has worked hard to put hard policy options onto the public agenda, only to see Turnbull frightened off by immediate reaction from the public or the lobbies. Turnbull, like Donald Trump, has commanded a certain respect for having become richer during his business career, but this has not seemed to make him more self-confident in economic management. Moreover, he has at times seemed merely the crude politician, using arguments he knows to be specious (for example over the impact of reverse gearing proposals).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At this early stage of the election campaign Turnbull's problems are not about particular policies or programs, of style, the state of the economy or whether the Coalition is thought to have delivered. More important is his very authenticity. Is this the real Turnbull on display? Or is it merely a wax cut-out, parroting Abbott policies if in a slightly more competent way? If the latter, was the changeover worth the effort and the grief? Does the failure to impose his own personality and philosophy on his government reflect some sort of Faustian bargain, whereby he achieved status by promising to change nothing? Or is it a courage matter? Does it reflect an actual want of ideas - an unexpected and disappointing incapacity to be the sort of leader he seemed to be? It's not merely a matter of who the "real" Malcolm is. It's also a question of whether he has abiding ideas, ideals and philosophy. Whether, indeed, he still has passion for the things that once seemed to matter. If voters come to see him as a fake, perhaps as someone who sold his soul to get into the Lodge, he can neither hope to maintain the support of his party nor of the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull is already campaigning rather more for conservative than middle ground, in effect against a suspicious and unfriendly</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">right in his own party. His supporters will argue, no doubt, that he can be "himself" only after he has won an election in his own right, and that he must "respect" the achievements and programs of Abbott. But a Turnbull who wins election on that basis has no licence to change, and won't be allowed to. Shorten himself has substance and authenticity problems. He too had a career before politics, and has wielded great power. But unlike Turnbull, his rise occurred without the public's gaining much feel for him, for his character, philosophy, ideas, ideals or instincts. What they know, particularly about how he used his union leadership to advance his own interests, hardly inspires confidence. Shorten can mouth zingers, slogans, thoughts for the day, and off-the-stump declarations of how he is a champion of the working class, but is not much for faking sincerity or for inspiring. Doggedness is his highest virtue. There's no doubt that Shorten is, like Turnbull, competent enough for the routine administration of government, for rationing resources, at helping draw up budgets, and in chairing meetings. He was an able enough minister, and, as Leader of the Opposition has done a fairly good job in drafting policies for the campaign, and, significantly, in out-flanking the Coalition</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">on economic management. The real question is whether either Turnbull or Shorten can chart a course for 10 years hence, for a time when, perhaps, they are still prime minister. Like Turnbull, Shorten is fine on his feet, even if he too is a poor speech reader and is better off the cuff. Like Turnbull, Shorten is actively disliked by most of his colleagues, not least for a long history of ruthless and remorseless self- interest, betrayals and abuse of friendships. When he falls it will be far and he will not be much mourned by colleagues. He is not so actively disliked by the public - although Coalition campaigning on his union record will not help. But he has yet to develop the confidence or the rapport that Bob Hawke did, and Paul Keating, and Kim Beazley - heavens, even Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard did. He's been Leader of the Opposition for three years. But no one yet could associate him with any abiding idea or explain what he's really about. All we sense is that he is not really passionate about anything he says he is passionate about. If Shorten or Turnbull are destined to be great, it is not yet apparent. It should have been by now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Come early July, at least one of them is stuffed.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SLOWLY but surely, Malcolm Turnbull’s wealth is becoming an issue in the election campaign. The latest to shine a light on it is Tony Abbott’s controversial chief-of-staff, Peta Credlin. When Credlin nicknamed the Prime Minister “Mr Harbourside Mansion”, she was doing Labor’s work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is part of Bill Shorten’s election strategy to portray the multi-millionaire from the posh Sydney suburb of Point Piper as out of touch with ordinary Australians, but the suggestion is more damaging when it comes from Turnbull’s own side.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coalition supporters cry foul and jump up and down about “class warfare” when critics mention the Turnbull fortune. But they lost the right to do that when the Coalition itself tried to use it to its own advantage at the start of the campaign. Three-and-a-half weeks ago, on the day the government confirmed the July 2 double-dissolution election, Deputy PM and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce told an interviewer: “People are going to have a very clear choice between someone who has actually made a quid in their life, made a success in their life, which is Malcolm Turnbull, or the nation being run by Bill Shorten.” After that, you’d think, Malcolm and his money are fair game. Labor has every right to argue that somebody who has made as big a quid as Turnbull is not well placed to identify with society’s battlers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Credlin, who once worked for Turnbull, is far from the first Liberal to warn about the political problem his wealth presents. Ten years ago, Niki Savva, who had been Peter Costello’s press secretary, asked Turnbull about an article I’d written suggesting his rich-list status could work against him if he ever became treasurer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I heard the very same thing from your former boss — and in my own house,” he replied. Savva wrote about it in her first book, So Greek. Treasurer Costello had stayed at Point Piper and, after a few wines, engaged in some blunt talk with the then backbencher.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nick Minchin, government Senate leader in the Howard years, also had concerns about how punters would react to tough economic decisions made by someone rolling in dough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Paddy Manning’s Turnbull biography, Born To Rule: “Minchin once said that Turnbull could never be prime minister while he lived in ‘that house’.” Both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader were distracted from their core campaign messages during the week by problems that flared up unexpectedly. Shorten’s were most serious because they reminded voters of issues from the Rudd-Gillard years, which he had hoped were dead and buried.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seeker policy was at the centre of political debate again as various Labor MPs and candidates showed reluctance to embrace <b>boat</b> turn-backs and other measures approved — at Shorten’s insistence — by last year’s party conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Turnbull himself ruthlessly exploited the Labor divisions. And Greens MP Adam Bandt, by raising the possibility of his party again playing a key role in the event of another hung parliament, also had Shorten fighting ghosts from the past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Memories of Julia Gillard’s needless and damaging deal with the Greens after the 2010 dead-heat election came flooding back, despite Shorten’s emphatic assertion: “Tell ’em they’re dreaming.” The issues of border security and a Labor-Greens alliance will now hang around Shorten’s neck until election day and that is very bad news for Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The distractions Turnbull had to deal with were not fundamental to his campaign in the same way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fuss over claims marginal-seat MP Fiona Scott betrayed Tony Abbott in the Liberal leadership ballot was a one-off irritant, though it clearly threw Turnbull off balance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The row over superannuation changes affecting only the top 4 per cent of taxpayers will almost certainly play the government’s way with the great mass of voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But a couple of the hiccups gave credibility to the “wealthy out-of-touch toff” portrayal and this is the Turnbull problem from week one that could run until we go to the polls. Being mentioned in the leaked “Panama Papers” does not mean Turnbull made use of tax havens, but it put his wealth in the headlines and allowed Labor to create suspicion by demanding “a full explanation”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM could not do much about that, but his sudden cancellation of a street walk in western Sydney was an own goal. It looked as though he was avoiding contact with the hoi polloi and prompted Credlin’s comment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He strengthened the “Mr Harbourside Mansion” perception next day by finding time for a private lunch at Melbourne’s exclusive — and exclusively male membership — Athenaeum Club, shortly after a single mother shirtfronted him over cuts to the Family Tax Benefit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a campaign where Labor is characterising the pre-election Budget as favouring the rich and hurting the poor, Turnbull needs to take heed of the perception problem pointed out by Costello and Minchin all those years ago and Credlin this week.LAURIE OAKES IS THE NINE NETWORK POLITICAL EDITOR</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Changing the subject</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>John McDonald   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">VISUAL ART</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over his long and varied career, this Australian artist has taken many sharp turns in a completely different direction.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jan Senbergs: Observation-Imagination</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE UNTIL JUNE 12</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is one painting in Jan Senbergs: Observation-Imagination at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span> that should strike a chord with every true artist. The Swimmer (1995) shows a small figure battling his way through dark, choppy waves, with no shoreline in sight. It conjures up those moments in the studio when inspiration disappears, a painting is not working and everything seems too hard. There is a sense of futility and despair, but still the swimmer pushes onward. When everything seems meaningless one can only keep going.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I thought of Rembrandt's Artist in His Studio (c.1628), a picture dominated by a large easel that we see only from the back. Facing us from the other side of the room is the artist, rendered minuscule by perspective. In one image we see how daunting it is to bring a painting into the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Senbergs (b. 1939), nothing seems to have come easily, while every hint of facility has inspired distrust. He gave up the medium of screenprinting in 1979 when he felt he had become "too confident". Up to that point he owed his reputation to an innovative use of screenprinted imagery on large canvases. It is a pattern repeated throughout this exhibition astutely curated by Elena Taylor. We see Senbergs working purposefully through one series after another until he feels he has exhausted a subject.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senbergs came to Australia at the age of 10, as a <b>refugee</b> from war-torn Latvia. He received his first art training at Richmond Technical College, where he was taught by artist Leonard French, who would become an important influence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Early pictures such as The Whipper or The Tower (both 1961), are painted in an abstract style that owes a debt to the older men who were Senbergs' mentors at the time - French, Roger Kemp and Len Crawford. Yet the underlying subject was straight out of Kafka, revealing a predilection for dark fantasy that has remained one of the constants in his work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whereas most artists begin in a figurative mode and evolve into abstraction, Senbergs took the opposite route, perhaps signifying a contrariness in his character. At a time when the art scene was dominated by movements such as hard-edge and colour field abstraction, he began working with recognisable imagery. This was partly because he disliked the way so many of his peers had surrendered themselves to the views of New York art critic, Clement Greenberg, who exerted an influence on advanced taste in a way no critic is ever likely</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to repeat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senbergs felt Greenbergian formalism, which encouraged the dogmatic belief that a work of art stood only for itself, was too narrow for his tastes. Where did this leave unquestionably great artists such as Goya? Did the historical progression of styles mean all political and social comment was to be excluded from so-called progressive art?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span> opened its new building on St Kilda Road in 1968 with a landmark survey of Australian abstract art called The Field, Senbergs was among those excluded. The silkscreen paintings he was making at the time had abstract elements but were mainly images of buildings and fractured monuments. These pieces were interpreted as political allegories of an Orwellian persuasion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The silkscreen works were the subject of a survey at the <span class="companylink">Art Gallery of NSW</span> in 2008, so I will not dwell upon them here, but they established Senbergs as an artist with an original vision. The culmination of this period came with the High Court Mural in Canberra (1977-80), a massive public art work. He collaborated with a factory to burn his images into sheets of aluminium.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1977, Senbergs' first marriage ended and he found himself living alone in Port Melbourne, then a rundown industrial suburb. It was a time of new beginnings, as he scaled down the screenprinting and took up drawing with a passion. Although his paintings always had a strong graphic aspect, Senbergs had never felt he was a good draughtsman, perhaps because of his lack of an art school education. This anxiety would be definitively laid to rest in the 1990s, when drawing became an all-consuming preoccupation. During the 1980s, Senbergs became more hands-on, no longer feeling comfortable with the idea of simply transferring an image from a photograph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first paintings of note were the Mt Lyell landscapes, which captured the scarred, battered likeness of a famous Tasmanian mining town. This subject, which Senbergs drew and researched, allowed him to exercise his taste for monumental themes, ruin and decay. There is nothing quite like these industrial landscapes that capture the destruction wrought by mining, but still manage to convey a heroic aspect to the enterprise. A painting such as Copperopolis - Mt Lyell (1983) is a glimpse of Hell, but also a fascinating labyrinth, as we chart the way the hills and gullies have been carved up by the miners and transformed into a sci-fi dystopia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 1980s was a brilliant decade for Senbergs. He followed the Mt Lyell work with a series of paintings made after a trip to Antarctica and a further series based on the remote regions of Western Australia. No picture is more memorable than Bea Maddock being lifted onto the Icebird - Heard Island (1987). It records the eerie sight of fellow artist, Bea Maddock, wrapped up like a mummy, being hauled off the ice after breaking her leg. It seems no less fanciful than the historical work, Borchgrevink's Foot (1987-88), which shows a moment in 1895, when an ambitious seaman leapt out of the landing <b>boat</b> before anyone else, thereby becoming the first man to set foot on the Antarctic continent. In Senbergs' painting the offending foot has become as large as the <b>boat</b> itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The level of research Senbergs undertook for his paintings of the 1980s demonstrates an unfashionable ambition to be a contemporary history painter. The Blue Angel of Wittenoom (1988), commemorates a visit to the notorious asbestos mining town in Western Australia. The "angel" hovering over the landscape is both the angel of death and a Wandjina, an original spirit of the land. In the 1990s this tendency was continued in allegorical paintings such as News (1991) based on the new media environment of the Gulf War. Alongside a great, sinister-looking machine stands a figure whose head and torso have taken on the form of a camera. It is as though mind and heart have been transmuted into a news-channelling apparatus, with no capacity to judge right and wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In typical fashion, at this time Senbergs seems to have stood back from the increasingly portentous nature of these works and decided a change was in order. This was the moment he returned to drawing with new gusto, producing an incredible large-scale depiction of his new studio, a former night-club in North Melbourne. Instead of dealing with literary or philosophical themes, Senbergs was now intent on capturing a spontaneous impression of an interior or a tribal sculpture. The meaning or message was created by the subject itself and by the expressive vigour of the mark-making.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the years that followed, Senbergs has extended that objectivity into a series of large map paintings that give a detailed - albeit partly fictional - overview of cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. The maps are without parallel in Australian art, but one might seek their origins in the topographical profiles drawn by the early explorers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two hundred years on, Senbergs has gone back to the same areas and sketched the cosmopolis that has grown up on the site of a struggling outpost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Throughout this overview of more than 50 years of work, one can only be impressed by Senbergs' consistency. Even allowing for his changes of direction when he reached the limits of a particular subject or medium, he has remained true to himself in a way that not many artists can match. It is not because of his supreme self-confidence. On the contrary, Senbergs' sense of doubt has been no less chronic than Cezanne's. The achievement lies in his ability to confront each crisis, each blank moment and emerge with a powerful, new solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jan Senbergs: Observation - Imagination, <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>, Melbourne, until June 12.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Battle lines drawn: Labor attacks, Coalition defends</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey. Phillip Coorey is the AFR's chief political correspondent.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1101 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>55</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The nation</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a fight that is Malcolm Turnbull's to lose, Bill Shorten is exploiting all the freedom of having nothing to lose.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not so long ago, a week was considered a long time in politics. Now, thanks to the advent of 24-hour everything, it's an eternity. By that measure, two months is a light year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And that is why the specific details of who said what and who fluffed up this week will matter little on election day, July 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even the first leaders' debate, to be televised on Friday night only by the low-rating subscription channel Sky News, is little more than a dry run. Anyone who wasn't at the pub or the pictures, was at home watching the footy. Chances are the hard-core element watching the debate either had to because it was part of their job (journalists, staffers etc) or political tragics who already have a fair idea who they will vote for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When naive Labor candidates started freelancing this week on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, flirting with the idea of dismantling the Pacific solution if elected, the government was quick out of the blocks to highlight what is a signature electoral weakness for Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers have played a pivotal role in two Labor election losses in 2001 and 2013, as well as the near miss in 2010. The public majority has spoken emphatically every time. Right, wrong or otherwise, it doesn't like people arriving en masse by <b>boat</b> which is exactly what will happen if the policy framework is dismantled, as Kevin Rudd did in 2008.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But wiser heads in the Labor Party, although furious at the fecklessness of the candidates who have known since July last year what the policy is, consoled themselves with the observation of "better now than week eight".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ditto those in the Coalition who were fretting after the old leadership ructions intruded into the Coalition campaign on Wednesday and Malcolm Turnbull cancelled a street walk in Penrith.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One way to try and gauge how different things may be in two months is to look back two months and consider how much has happened since then.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In mid-March, the government had an election-winning lead in the polls, it had just surrendered plans to raise the base or rate of the GST and was still toying - publicly at least - with the idea of touching negative gearing. It was considering bringing the budget forward a week and the Senate was torturing us all with a week-long debate on Senate voting reform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What did matter this week were the underlying signs which give a early guide to the strengths, weaknesses and challenges each side faces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is clear the government has adopted a defensive strategy and Labor an offensive one. Based on the initial travel patterns, the Coalition is trying to save the seats it holds. That is a different attitude from two-to-three months ago when, with Turnbull still riding high in the personal approval stakes, it had plans to expand the empire. Apart from brief sojourns in the Brisbane Labor electorates of Moreton and Lilley, Turnbull spent his week in Liberal marginal seats in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Adelaide on Friday, he was in Boothby and Hindmarsh. Both had already been visited this week by Julie Bishop and Scott Morrison. That is serious attention. One suspects the $50 billion hurled at SA to build submarines has not fed the bulldog.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten also spent the week in Coalition seats, carpet bombing the northern Queensland marginals of Herbert, Leichhardt, Capricornia and Dawson before dropping into Reid in Western Sydney on Friday, a seat Labor lost at the last election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The campaign has not settled on a theme yet. Turnbull is still finding his line and length while Shorten, almost three years in the job and with a settled team, policy agenda and campaign structure behind him, looks far more comfortable than his rival, even when fending off the difficult issues such as boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, he looks like he is having fun. Watching Shorten is reminiscent of a carefree Tony Abbott in 2010 who, back then, also had nothing to lose in trying to unseat a first-term government. Remember the images of Abbott pushing a child in a go-kart and staying up for 72 hours straight in the final days before the poll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull, because he has so much more to lose, has started defensively. It doesn't help by having nothing new to announce but the government has understandably dedicated the first week to selling last week's budget, something it would have had to have done this week, election campaign or not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That has not gone well. It has been attacked by its own base over the changes to super and been belted by the other side on the issue of fairness. Goodness knows why it has not made more of the fact that of the $6 billion to be hoiked out of rich folks' super, $3 billion will be going to the lowly paid to bolster their retirement savings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott, the pin-up boy for the Liberal base, did Turnbull a favour this week when he backed him on super but there remains a wariness. Abbott's former chief of staff Peta Credlin, now a media commentator, called Turnbull "Mr Harbourside Mansion" on Thursday, fuelling fears she will be throwing the bombs on behalf of the old boss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further underscoring their defensive strategy, the Liberals have moved quickly to the negative as they seek to ingrain in voters' minds the essential core negatives that the polling tells them still concern people about Labor. These revolve around boats and the nightmare alliance Julia Gillard forged with the Greens after 2010 produced a hung Parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Otherwise grown and intelligent men like Turnbull and Morrison are making wild claims that Greens MP Adam Bandt will be the "the Deputy treasurer of the country under a Labor/Greens government" when in reality, Labor would rather stick a fork in its eye than ever do anything with the Greens again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At eight weeks long, with pre-poll voting to not begin for another month, and with neither party having enough money to make lots of promises, don't expect things to warm up in a hurry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The risk with that is the public will lose interest and the whole shebang becomes just another reality show. Then it becomes much harder to re-engage people.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ZING GOES AN OLD ART: POLITICIANS WRANGLING THE CROWD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Clark   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Electioneering</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before the Twitterverse, an MP who couldn't handle a rowdy crowd was like a stockman oneering who couldn't ride a horse, writes Andrew Clark.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Someone from the front row of a noisy campaign meeting in the Gippsland town of Wonthaggi yelled out: "Tell us all you know, Bob. It won't take long."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal prime minister Robert Menzies, midway through a 1950s federal election campaign, retorted: "I'll tell you everything we both know - it won't take any longer."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One interjector at another meeting yelled: "Wotcha gonna do about 'ousing?" Menzies replied: "Put an 'h' in front of it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, it was another era, before robo-phone calls, push-polling, attack ads, <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>, <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> feeds and so on. The open Australian election campaign meetings in town halls, stadiums, parks or theatres were unrehearsed, unfiltered engagements between politicians and voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were meetings that tested the electoral standing of figures like Menzies, prime minister from 1949-66.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam (1972-75), who opened his triumphal election winning campaign with an electrifying speech at the Blacktown Town Hall in western Sydney and as he left the stage a woman in the audience grabbed his hand and kissed it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back in those days, a politician who could not handle a rowdy election campaign meeting was like a stockman who couldn't ride a horse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Contrast that with the first week of the current campaign, and the observer can legitimately ask: Is there a point to this?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We already have, as Zorba the Greek once put it, "the full catastrophe" - young reporters taking selfies on campaign buses, kissing babies, high-fiving school kids, eating watermelon while smiling at the same time, quaffing craft beer, fondling bulls, lunch in an exclusive men's club, and politicians repeating the mantra of "jobs and growth" or "fairness" - depending on which side they're on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To the question, "Is there going to be another seven weeks of this?" the answer is probably no. At some point the parties will engage, and if polls continue to indicate the final result may be close, we should have a real election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And to be fair, there's also been disagreement in Labor ranks about <b>refugee boat</b> turnbacks, disendorsement of a Labor candidate over a previous run-in with the police, claim and counter-claim about either major party accepting Greens' support in any future hung parliament, blowback over some government superannuation changes, and continuing internal tensions over Malcolm Turnbull's September 14 defeat of Tony Abbott in a Liberal party room vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were also revelations in The Australian Financial Review that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the early '90s was a director of a company with an interest a Siberian gold mining lease that was established in the British Virgin Islands tax haven, and has been mentioned in the Panama Papers. However, there is no suggestion of impropriety by Mr Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Oh, and there's Friday's TV debate, which had not been held as this article went to press, in a so-called people's forum format, where the two leaders take questions from a carefully audited group of 100 "undecided" voters at the Windsor RSL on the outskirts of western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Contrast this tight campaign control by Australian media massagers, managers and mentors, with the way they conduct election campaigns in the US - the country that in fact invented most of the modern techniques that political parties here so avidly embrace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">President Barack Obama rose from nowhere on the back of soaring campaign speeches - first, at the Democratic Party Convention in 2004, then later addressing crowds that numbered up to 100,000 as he criss-crossed the US and successfully sought the Democratic Party's nomination to run for the presidency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This year real-estate mogul and presumptive Republican candidate, Donald Trump, addressed huge election campaign crowds as he piled on the votes in state primary elections. Far from losing out from rowdy, rancorous, occasionally violent gatherings, Trump's numbers among Republican Party supporters have swept other GOP contenders out of the race.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even in the UK, which bequeathed our parliamentary system, former Tory prime minister John Major reverted to open public speechmaking from a soapbox in town squares midway through the 1992 election campaign when polls suggested he was heading for defeat. Major was not matching the campaigning brilliance of Winston Churchill, but he won, although five years later he was swept away by Labour's Tony Blair in the 1997 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Explaining this apparent contradiction between Australia and the US and UK, Dr Peter Chen, a senior lecturer in politics at Sydney University, says that "in the Australian situation there are cultural and structural reasons" for the shift from genuinely open-to-the public, unfiltered, campaign speechmaking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compared with Australia's 25 million, the US has a population nudging 300 million in a similar-sized country. "The geography of America means you can get a lot of value from travelling short distances and giving the same speech." Further, the primary part of the US Presidential election process, which involves separate ballots in many of the 50 states, involves "the structural necessity of giving small stump speeches" in those states, he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Britain "the enduring norm of MPs working in their constituencies is far more part of the culture, and its lack of social mobility". By contrast "Australia has had a greater degree of social mobility" and features "media concentration". So any staged event during an election campaign - one featuring "talent" like grinning babies, a small crowd of shopkeepers, old people in a cafe etc - is likely to feature on that night's Australian TV news.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the US, however, Dr Chen says that to attract broad coverage from a more diversified media "you have to be at the top of the apex" by, for example, giving a headline-grabbing speech in front of a big crowd.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scoring a big headline in the papers, or a compelling sound bite for the nightly news on television, can occur in America if you have the "Big Mo" of a Barack Obama, or you're describing illegal Mexican migrants as "rapists" or calling for the temporary banning of all Muslims from entering the US, like Donald Trump.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in Australia "you are picking up 80 per cent of the media coverage" with safe, sanitised, scripted "events", like high-fiving school children, or eating watermelons in front of supportive small business operators. So Australian politicians "have steered towards the control aspects" to avoid "people jumping on any gaffe or misstatement". Further, just one-third of voters here decide on who they will support during an election campaign, and they tend to be "the least engaged, least informed part of the electorate. Most of the informed people have decided already".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These undecideds might regard holding big, rowdy campaign meetings as a turn-off. "You have to be careful that they don't look like protests" because "Australians don't like protests and they don't like political actions that they think are disruptive". Any whiff of an open campaign meeting is a signal for the opposing camp to send in rowdy protesters who are likely to swamp the content of a candidate's speech on that night's TV news.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They're all arguments for switching to political vaudeville. But what if the careful, controlled election campaign strategy fails to attract more support and ends up boringly, and oh so carefully, helping to sleepwalk the Labor or Liberal parties over the election abyss?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Chen counters by detailing the "risk element" of holding big rallies. "What if no one shows up, or a stadium is half full?" One early Republican hopeful in the US presidential race, Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida, and brother of US President George W. Bush (2000-08), who ran a lacklustre campaign, was forced to "almost beg" his audiences to applaud more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's all very logical, but the issues are too big, and the challenges facing Australia too great, for us to settle for content-lacking, sanitised election campaigns. P</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PICTURE THAT SHOULD STOP BILL SHORTEN GOING GREEN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>953 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LIKE an embarrassing hipster uncle at a suburban wedding party, the Greens blundered into Labor’s election campaign this week by raising the spectre of forming minority government with their Left-of-centre comrades in the event of a hung parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s only House of Representatives Greens MP, member for Melbourne Adam Bandt, got the debate going on Monday night when he told the ABC: “If we do end up in a situation where, like 2010, where no one wins and everyone has to negotiate, then I would like to see Greens working with Labor.” You could almost hear the anguished wail rising from Labor’s campaign headquarters, which had been hoping this was an issue it wouldn’t have to confront — at least not 24 hours into an eight-week campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pounced, declaring (unnecessarily of course) that there was “absolutely no chance” he’d do a deal with Greens but that people shouldn’t believe Labor if they said they wouldn’t.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve heard from Adam Bandt from the Greens, that he’s looking forward to a hung parliament. He said the three years between 2010 and 2013 were effectively a golden era. He looked back to that with affection,’’ Turnbull said. “Most Australians look back to it with a degree of horror, let’s face it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What will be the price of the Greens’ pending deal with Labor, which they’ve been promoting? It will be much higher taxes … a relaxation of our border protection rules so we’ll have the people smugglers back in business and of course he (Bandt) wants even higher carbon taxes than Bill Shorten is proposing.’’ Twisting the knife, Turnbull went on: “If we have another hung parliament it will be the Greens and Labor back into business — it will be same old Labor, same old deal with the Greens, Julia Gillard’s government being re-enacted by Bill Shorten.’’ Leaving aside the theatre of Turnbull’s announcement, he’s flagged a very serious problem for Shorten and Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The minority government formed by Gillard, the Greens and three independents in 2010 hamstrung her government, was responsible for the failed carbon tax and mining tax and left it so vulnerable she was chopped down by Kevin Rudd .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten, out on the campaign trail in Queensland, was understandably very keen to shut this down and, channelling The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan, replied: “Tell ’em they’re dreaming. No deals.’’ But up bobbed Bandt again like a whack-a-mole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Bill Shorten can say we are dreaming. Sometimes dreams come true,’’ he replied. Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek was next out to swat this pesky idea away, mirroring Turnbull’s language when she said that most Australians would be “horrified’’ by another hung parliament But how seriously should we really take all those denials? After all, we’ve heard them before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On August 20, 2010, Julia Gillard was asked on ABC Radio if she was prepared to negotiate, in a hung parliament, by “doing a deal with the Greens’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Absolutely ridiculous,’’ Gillard replied. “I’ve ruled that out a couple of dozen times in this campaign. That’s a Liberal Party fear campaign and no one should fall for it.’’ Australians returned a hung parliament the next day. Ten days later, Gillard not only did a deal for minority government with the Greens and three independents, she posed for pictures with Greens leader Bob Brown and Bandt, all of them wearing matching sprigs of wattle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That deal blew up in early 2013, although they maintained an agreement on confidence and supply through to the election (which Tony Abbott won in a landslide). The truth is, Labor-Green minority governments are self-hating marriages of convenience that damage both parties badly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanian Labor premier Michael Field signed the Labor-Green Accord back in 1989. It ended so badly that years later, Field called Victorian colleague Steve Bracks and urged him never to go into minority government with the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor did a deal with the Greens in Tasmania again in 2010 under Lara Giddings, which even saw two Greens sitting in Cabinet. That ended with a return to a Coalition government too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten this week described the Australian Labor Party as being in the centre of Australian politics and the Greens at the “extreme Left”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If that’s true, he has a lot to lose by metaphorically getting into bed with them. Labor, and Australia, will be dragged to the Left as the Labor government seeks to find policies to placate its junior coalition parties. And everyone knows politics is won at the centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Greens have a lot to lose too. Their greatest marketing strength has always been that they are different, the party of the anti-politician. But in a power-sharing arrangement, they actually have to take responsibility for their decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For example, that would mean signing up to Labor’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, which endorses <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing. Good luck getting Sarah Hanson-Young and her supporters to agree to that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the neatest way of dealing with the Greens was spelled out on Tuesday by NSW senator David Leyonhjelm, who isn’t letting the fact he’s set to lose his seat under new Senate micro party voting rules stop him lobbing hand grenades into the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Liberal Democrats have struck a preference deal with the Greens. We’ll put them last in every state, in every seat, every time and they can go and get stuffed.’’ ELLEN WHINNETT IS NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR ellen.whinnett@news.com.au@ellenwhinnett</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Another mutineer joins ranks of <b>boat</b> rats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CLARISSA BYE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>166 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A LABOR candidate parachuted into a marginal seat has been pictured protesting against the ALP party policy of offshore processing of refugees and <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Josh Wilson, the hand-picked candidate slotted into the marginal seat of Fremantle yesterday after a unionist was dumped for not revealing his criminal past, adds to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s nightmare run of candidates opposed to tough <b>boat</b> policies.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten has been struggling to maintain party discipline over the policy, with an outbreak of up to 20 Labor candidates and MPs disagreeing with ALP policy on refugees, despite being adopted nationally as official party platform mid-last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, it emerged Fremantle deputy mayor Mr Wilson had campaigned with the Fremantle <b>Refugee</b> Rights Action Network against <b>boat</b> turnbacks, demanding the government close offshore processing and allow <b>asylum</b> seekers stay in Australia.Mr Shorten defended Mr Wilson, saying: “Every candidate recognises our policy will be to stop people smugglers.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor’s boatload of baggage</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew ProbynFederal Political Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1032 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>67</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">F ive years ago, Chris Bowen was on a <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> jet that had just landed at Sydney airport after an overnight flight. A voice came over the intercom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a message for “the Honourable Chris Bowen” that airport staff would be meeting him at the gate to escort him through Customs.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was no hiding. The immigration minister was on the plane. “Bloody hell. My cover’s blown,” Bowen thought. “The deal’s gonna be screwed.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For months he’d been negotiating a deal in secret with the Malaysian Government to strike an unlikely agreement on <b>asylum</b> seekers. Julia Gillard had known, of course. The prime minister had to know.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But not many others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bowen had flown to Kuala Lumpur five or six times over the previous eight months, most often on a week night: there’d be a full day of talks, then back on the plane to Sydney that night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one was to know, just in case negotiations produced nought or the Malaysian Government got cold feet. But there he was, with the deal nearly sealed, and a stewardess on MH123 announces to the world that he’s flying home from Kuala Lumpur.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thankfully no one seemed to twig. His presence on the flight went unremarked. It didn’t leak.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one tweeted it. Nothing appeared in the newspapers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Phew. Not that it would have made any difference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Malaysian Solution was a sliding doors moment. It was an opportunity to try something new to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experienced bureaucrats, hardened by years of border policy, said it might even work — a “virtual tow-back” of boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would have seen 800 <b>asylum</b> seekers from Australia swapped for 4000 “genuine” refugees in Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agreement that Bowen negotiated with his Malaysian counterparts would have seen Kuala Lumpur recognise <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees for the first time. They wouldn’t be “illegal immigrants” like every other non-Malaysian alien without a visa; a step forward for the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Malaysian Solution never had a chance. Already humiliated by the people smugglers, Labor was tortured by the Tony Abbott-led coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens moralised with the purity of the impotent and sat on their hands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s dismantling of the Howard government’s Pacific Solution had proved to be an unmitigated disaster by the time Bowen and Gillard proposed the Malaysian people swap in 2011.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As many as 600 people had already died on Australia’s maritime borders under Labor’s watch by the time Gillard had a second crack at reviving the people swap in June 2012, including about 100 the week before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott refused to support the Malaysian Solution, stubbornly insisting Gillard simply reinstate offshore processing, temporary protection visas and <b>boat</b> turn-backs. When Gillard relented on Nauru, Abbott was unmoved. With his political steelcaps on Gillard’s throat, he merely pressed harder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A tearful Joe Hockey told Parliament it would be “over my dead body” before he supported a people swap that allowed unaccompanied children to be sent to Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another 600 would die before the boats were stopped. Twelve hundred people, all up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was odious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sinking of the Malaysian Solution is still bitter among Labor MPs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the many sour moments in the hung Parliament, for many of the players it is the sourest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It confirmed to Labor that it could never win on border protection. It could not out-tough the coalition on <b>boat</b> people, especially a coalition prepared to play as ruthlessly hardball as Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor learnt it could not ever rely on the Greens. The Greens condemned Labor on carbon but killed it on boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first week of the election campaign has told us that though Labor under Bill Shorten will be competitive, it will be saddled by boats, the Greens and the ghastly memories of a hung Parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor simply cannot retreat on any aspect of the existing border protection policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The opportunity to present a credible alternative to Nauru, Manus Island and <b>boat</b> turn-backs passed when the Malaysian Solution sank.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten and Bowen, the next in line to become Labor leader, knew this when they fought vigorously for the ALP national platform to be amended as such last July.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor being competitive at the start of this eight-week campaign is only fuelling trouble on boats and the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The polls consistently showing the contest is close — 50-50 according to ReachTEL; 51-49 to the coalition according to Ipsos and 49-51 to ALP according to Newspoll — are also consistent in showing that Labor will struggle to form majority government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Gillard negotiated victory after the inconclusive 2010 election, the ALP primary vote was 37.99 per cent. But none of the major polls has Labor getting to this level.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Newspoll has the ALP on a 37 per cent primary (the highest for the year), Ipsos has the ALP on 33 per cent and ReachTEL has it on 35 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On these figures, Shorten won’t be able to shake the belief that an unlikely Labor victory on July 2 would have to involve some kind of agreement with the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The minor party’s leader, Richard Di Natale, says the Greens will only negotiate with Labor. Greens MP Adam Bandt said a Greens-Labor alliance could deliver a “progressive” Parliament, calling coalition policies “reprehensible”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a recommendation Shorten can’t afford. It is as toxically unhelpful to Labor as a Brian Burke endorsement is to a WA Labor candidate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because, as South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young was quick to point out, the Greens would have a price if Labor fell short of majority government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“On <b>asylum</b> seekers, we want to see those cruel camps closed and we want to see us giving a safer way for people to get to Australia,” Hanson-Young told ABC radio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As senior Labor figures grimly observed this week, any day spent talking about boats meant Labor was not winning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only way for Labor to start winning is for everyone to stop talking about boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like that’s going to happen.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>malay : Malaysia | austr : Australia | kuala : Kuala Lumpur | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | nswals : New South Wales | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020160512ec5d00038</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020160512ec5d00035" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor fractures on <b>asylum</b> seekers as candidates peel away</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>340 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR candidates are “peeling away’’ from Bill Shorten’s hardline stance on <b>asylum</b> seekers, sparking internal ALP frustrations over the preselection process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the Opposition Leader desperate to move away from the issue, it emerged yesterday his new candidate for Fremantle, Josh Wilson (pictured), was a local councillor when he voted this year to demand Malcolm Turnbull end <b>boat</b> “turnbacks”. A photo also emerged this week of Labor’s candidate for Herbert, Cathy O’Toole, holding a sign outside the office of MP Ewen Jones, saying “let them stay”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Labor’s candidate for Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, said on social media that Labor needed a “fairer policy” on <b>asylum</b> seekers and did not rule out crossing the floor if elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Courier-Mail understands Mr Shorten has voiced his frustration within his team about some candidates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attorney-General George Brandis said it was plain Labor candidates were peeling away from the stance taken at Labor’s ­national conference. “The man who evidently will be endorsed as the new Labor candidate for Fremantle is on the record for opposing the Government’s tough stance on border protection,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The question Mr Shorten has to confront is how many of the Labor party’s candidates in this election are in fact either publicly or privately opponents of the Government’s strong policies on border protection.” Meanwhile, the Prime Minister said his MP for Dawson, George Christensen, was entitled to express his opinion about his own area. Mr Christensen said on Wednesday his electorate did not have enough jobs to support refugees.“I understand it from George ... in his community, where there has been a downturn in the economy because of the downturn in the mining construction boom, and that’s happened in a number of big cities in north Queensland,” Mr Turnbull said. “What he’s saying is ... it’s better for refugees who come in the humanitarian program to be located in places where there are more opportunities for work.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Rebels sap Shorten’s authority</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>665 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor campaign is fracturing over border protection</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wherever his campaign takes him, Bill Shorten is being dogged by Labor’s achilles heel: its dismal failure to protect Australia’s borders during the Rudd-Gillard years and internal divisions in caucus over <b>boat</b> turnbacks, offshore processing and detention centres. After less than a week on the hustings, the widening schism is already a major distraction. More worryingly for the Opposition Leader, his inability to keep his team in line over the issue tells voters that, as prime minister, Mr Shorten would lack the authority to maintain support for the policy in cabinet and the wider party when people-smugglers tested a Shorten government’s resolve. This they would do at the first opportunity.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s weak leadership in failing to discipline Labor’s candidate for Macarthur, Michael Freelander, for comparing the Manus Island detention centre to a concentration camp gave Foreign Minister Julie Bishop a free kick yesterday. Campaigning in the marginal southwestern Sydney seat, she demanded an apology from Mr Freelander and reminded voters that the detention centres were necessitated by Labor’s failed policies on people-smuggling. Yesterday the issue followed Mr Shorten to central Queensland, where Labor’s Leisa Neaton, one of a growing list of candidates to have raised concerns over offshore processing, now insists she backs the party policy. In the west, Labor’s newly endorsed Fremantle candidate Josh Wilson appeared behind a “Let Them Stay” banner in February, an image published alongside <b>refugee</b> advocates calling for the local council to black-ban companies involved in offshore detention. In toeing the party line on turnbacks, Mr Wilson now claims deputy leader Tanya Plibersek “said it very well, that that’s something you wouldn’t want to see happen other than in extraordinary circumstances”. Therein lurks a problem for Mr Shorten if he becomes prime minister. Neither Ms Plibersek nor Senate leader Penny Wong could bring themselves to vote for turnbacks at last year’s ALP conference. They handed their proxies to other delegates, who voted against Mr Shorten on the issue. So did frontbencher Anthony Albanese, who spoke against turnbacks. This week he was reluctant to defend the practice in an ABC television interview. In government, “extraordinary’’ circumstances may not be so unusual. Since the Abbott government launched Operation Sovereign Borders, 26 boats with 710 passengers successfully have been turned back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Confronted by a fresh flotilla of people-smugglers’ leaky vessels, Mr Shorten as prime minister would be relying on the support of Ms Plibersek as deputy prime minister, foreign minister and a member of the all-important national security committee to implement determined, consistent border protection measures and to maintain caucus discipline. Even if Ms Plibersek’s heart were in the policy this would be problematic. Within two days of the start of the campaign, Labor’s candidate for Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, spoke out against turnbacks. Internal criticisms of the party’s policy also have been aired by Tasmanian MP Lisa Singh, West Australian senator Sue Lines, northern NSW MP Jill Hall and the candidate for the Victorian seat of Indi, Eric Kerr. They have called for Labor to rethink support for offshore processing and to bring <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Manus Island to Australia.Well aware of a Shorten government’s vulnerability, people-smugglers eager to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a hurry would test its resolve to the limits, as they did in the Rudd-Gillard years when 50,000 people arrived, 1200 known drownings occurred and tens of thousands of other refugees from around the world missed out on humanitarian places here. The unravelling of Mr Shorten’s authority on this issue, less than a week into the campaign, is a pointer to far greater problems he would face in government from among his own ranks. Such dissent would undermine his leadership. The Coalition will exploit his discomfort. Given half a chance, so would people-smugglers.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Opportunity in $1 trillion kitty</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Geoff Hiscock   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1667 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AustralianFeatureB</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN THE ZONE - INDO PACIFIC AGRICULTURE Indonesia has an economy and population too big to ignore</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IF fortune truly favours the brave, is it time to shy away or shine in 2016? That’s the question confronting Australia’s business sector when it contemplates what might await it in the large and growing Indonesian economy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With gross domestic product of about $US900 billion ($1.17 trillion), Indonesia already is and will continue to be a huge business investment destination, built on rising consumer demand for a variety of goods and services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia has close to 260 million people (half of them under 30), and is adding about 2.7 million people a year. Economic growth, rising incomes, urbanisation, higher wages and more jobs in the economy’s modern sectors all point to an opportunity on Australia’s doorstep.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Indonesia is also everything that some Australian businesses dislike — too different, too messy, too crowded, too dangerous, too culturally uncomfortable, too protected, too corrupt, too hard to read — in general, too difficult. The <span class="companylink">World Bank</span> ranks Indonesia at No 109 on its 2015 “ease of doing business” scale. In comparison, Singapore ranks No 1, South Korea is at No 4, with Japan at 34 and China at 84.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia Indonesia Business Council president Debnath Guharoy, who shuttles between Melbourne and Jakarta in his role as Asia regional director of research firm Roy Morgan, says it’s tough to get more Australians to focus on Indonesia’s business opportunities. “A decade ago there were 450 Australian businesses represented in Indonesia. Today the figure is down to about 250,” he told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guharoy argues that the Australian emphasis should be on investing in Indonesia, not just selling products into the market. “Without investment, we will never be able to integrate. Making the change will be no easy task … but there has never been a better time to make that change,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Certainly, Indonesia’s business world has its share of problems, including deficient infrastructure, protectionism, red tape and corruption. Indonesia rated poorly in the 2015 <span class="companylink">Transparency International</span> corruption perception index, coming in 88th out of 168 nations, which puts it lower than China and India. And it’s a Muslim-majority nation with a culture far different to what many Australians are used to. But if Australian business can build successful ties with other culturally divergent Asian trade partners such as China, Japan and South Korea, why do so many people shy away from Indonesia’s palpable energy and buzz?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Guharoy’s view, Australians need to stop whingeing and start pushing for change. He says more companies from around the world, not just from Asia, are engaging with Indonesia. “They face the same challenges we do. But they recognise the positive changes made by the Jokowi (as President Joko Widodo is widely known) administration, the shrinking of the negative list.” In consumer surveys, Indonesia routinely vies with India and the Philippines for the mantle of Asia’s most optimistic nation. The latest research by Roy Morgan shows Indonesia consumer confidence in February at 147.1, well above the long-run average of 131.8. People are upbeat, with 68 per cent believing their family will be better off financially in a year’s time, and 79 per cent expecting the Indonesian economy to do well over the next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The economy grew by 4.8 per cent last year and is likely to reach 5.1 per cent this year, pushing per capita income to just under $US3500. Even so, Indonesia is an economic underachiever, in the view of regional forecaster, Singapore-based IMA Asia. In its latest outlook for businesses investing in Asia, IMA said that if Indonesia had better policies, annual economic growth could lift into the 7-8 per cent range.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Red tape, corruption and poor services undermine the operating environment,” it said, noting that this hurt multinational corporations by slowing progress on projects and cutting profits. “Provincial governments can be autocratic and quite corrupt. The rise of resource nationalism has hurt the oil, gas and mining outlook. Jokowi promises to improve the operating environment, but progress will be slow.” IMA expects a “weak recovery” this year, and identifies Indonesian consumers as the “economic bedrock,” with a broad lift in entry-level consumer demand underway. It expects that “mildly better policies” will attract investment, with a return to an investment grade sovereign rating possible this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It says that since taking office in October 2014, Widodo has struggled to deliver reforms in the face of an opposition-controlled legislature, maverick cabinet members and an obstructionist bureaucracy, though things are looking better this year with the opposition fragmented and a restructured cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What might a better political environment mean for the bilateral relationship? Less than a year ago, Australia-Indonesia business ties were bogged deep in the sands of mutual distrust and suspicion. The April 2015 execution in Bali of two Australians convicted of drug smuggling, Indonesia’s abrupt slashing in July of its import quota for live cattle from Australia, the Abbott government’s aggressive policy on <b>refugee boat</b> turnbacks and the lingering 2013 revelations about an Australian phone tap on Indonesia’s former first lady Kristiani Herawati, wife of then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, all made for an uncomfortable business environment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull laid down some early markers after he took over from Tony Abbott in September 2015. He flew to Jakarta in mid-November for meetings and a city walkaround with Widodo, later declaring that a stronger relationship with Indonesia was a “personal objective of mine”. Like Turnbull, Widodo came to politics from a business background. Turnbull describes him as “a powerful advocate for moderate and tolerant Islam”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guharoy says goodwill between Turnbull and Widodo is helpful to business. “So far, so good,” he said, noting that the business communities in both countries had grown accustomed to the political ups and downs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A week after Turnbull’s visit, former trade minister Andrew Robb led a large Australian business delegation to Indonesia, where he professed to see some “green shoots” in the relationship. During his visit, Robb acknowledged that Australia had overlooked Indonesia in the past 15 years, instead concentrating on building trade with the major North Asian economies of China, Japan and South Korea — all of which have signed free-trade agreements with Australia in the past 15 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve been looking past one another for the last 10 or 15 years,” Robb said in Yogyakarta, noting that Indonesia was only Australia’s 12th largest trading partner at $15bn a year, and two-way investment was only a “fraction of what it could be” at just under $10bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robb has since departed the trade portfolio, with Steve Ciobo in the job since February. Ciobo and his Indonesian counterpart Tom Lembong agreed during a meeting in Canberra in March that they would reinvigorate negotiations for a comprehensive economic partnership agreement, which had been stalled for a couple of years by the frosty state of bilateral ties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ciobo and Lembong said that they hoped the economic partnership agreement could be concluded in the next 12 to 18 months, with a goal of getting some “early outcomes” in sectors such as education, infrastructure, horti­culture, agriculture, food processing, fashion and design, professional services and financial services. Negotiators will meet in Jakarta this month, with another round set down for June.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lembong said the two sides should try to move beyond the “old 20th century battlegrounds” and focus instead on “21st century issues such as the digital economy and the services sector”. He envisions more activity in the “fun” areas of fashion, food and celebrity chefs, in the hope of putting more warmth into the dialogue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One key objective is to get more out the Indonesia-Australia Business Partnership Group, (IA-BPG), so that it becomes a forum where the various business groups identify fresh ideas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guharoy, whose AIBC is one of the six organisations in the IA-BPG, said he viewed it as an opportunity for two very different neighbours to create an agreement that the rest of the world could emulate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know the overwhelming majority of Australians engaged in business in Asia find the experience rewarding,” Guharoy said, adding that the opportunities for Indonesia and Australia to co-operate were “limitless”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Guharoy knows it will require a momentous shift in attitudes for Australian business to turn its mind to Indonesia — or indeed Asia in general — when apparently easier opportunities abound in the domestic and New Zealand markets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guharoy points to research that Roy Morgan did 18 months ago for PWC’s “Passing Us By” report, which found only 9 per cent of Australian businesses were operating in Asia and only 12 per cent had any experience of doing business there at all. About two thirds of businesses surveyed had no intention of changing their stance towards Asia in the next two to three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report’s blunt assessment was that Australian business was complacent and operated in a relatively sheltered and comfortable environment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia is anything but sheltered and comfortable. Even so, Guharoy is adamant that the Australia-Indonesia relationship can offer much more than what he calls “boats, beef and Bali”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We can do a lot of good, and make a lot of money doing it,” he says. That should be music to entrepreneurial ears.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INDONESIA Size: 1,919,317sq km Population: 259mn (2016 estimate) Capital: Jakarta, population 10mn Other major cities: Surabaya, Bandung, Medan President: Joko Widodo, since October 2014 GDP: $US902bn (2016 estimate) GDP per capita: $US3491 (2016 estimate) Economic growth rate: 4.8% in 2015, 5.1% est. in 2016 Unemployment rate: 6% in 2015, 6.3% est. in 2016 Exchange rate: 13,389 rupiah=$US1 (average for 2015) Australia-Indonesia two-way trade: $A14.8bn (2014-15) Exports to Indonesia.: Wheat, animals, sugar, education services Imports from Indonesia: Manufactured goods, tourism servicesSource: DFAT, IMA Asia</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>e1101 : Economic Growth | e11 : Economic Performance/Indicators | ecat : Economic News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | jakar : Jakarta | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160512ec5d0002w</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NORTHT0020160512ec5d0000y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor candidate marches against own policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHRISTOPHER WALSH christopher.walsh@news.com.au POLITICAL REPORTER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>236 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR candidate for Solomon Luke Gosling marched in a “Let Them Stay” <b>asylum</b> seeker rally in Darwin despite publicly saying he supports Bill Shorten's offshore processing policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sky News revealed last night Mr Gosling (inset) attended the rally and has become the latest ALP candidate to be seen protesting his own party’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rally was held at Nightcliff in February as part of other rallies across the country calling for the Government to prevent 267 <b>asylum</b> seekers returning to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sky News obtained photos of Mr Gosling at the event, which attracted an estimated 400 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Gosling back-pedalled yesterday, claiming his presence at the rally becoming public was part of “the Liberal dirt unit trawling the past”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor has a clear and unequivocal position. We will not put the people smugglers back in business,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it’s the latest embarrassment for the party that continues to see internal divisions over the <b>asylum</b> seeker issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, Melbourne ALP candidate Sophie Ismail said she couldn’t support <b>boat</b> turnbacks and Herbert candidate Cathy O’Toole was seen holding a “Let Them Stay” sign in pictures outside of a Liberal member’s electorate office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McArthur Labor candidate Michael Freelander yesterday compared the Manus Island detention centre to a concentration camp.CONTINUED P2</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>MORAL COMPASS IN A SPIN OVER <b>ASYLUM</b>-SEEKERS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Cameron Stewart, Associate Editor </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s tough line on boats has some in the party fuming</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Labor immigration minister Chris Bowen spoke this week of his party’s “moral compass” in not allowing <b>asylum</b>-seekers to risk death by taking a <b>boat</b> to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My moral compass — our moral compass — points us very clearly to inviting more refugees to Australia in a safe and orderly process so that we never have to go back to the situation where an immigration minister is taking the call at two o’clock in the morning when another <b>boat</b> is sinking,” he said. “We cannot countenance that.” But only days into this election campaign Labor’s moral compass on <b>asylum</b>-seekers is spinning in different directions, depending on whom is speaking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recently, at least 10 Labor candidates, MPs, senators and frontbenchers have openly criticised their party’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy or have offered only tepid support for it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor attempts to portray this dissension as a healthy diversity of views that does not change its overall hardline policy. But the potential political damage of such disunity is immense and the Coalition is wasting no time exploiting it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The trouble for Labor is they can’t hold that position in government and Tanya Plibersek, Anthony Albanese — all of these people would be sitting around the national security committee and they would be arguing against the prime minister of the day, Bill Shorten, and the policy would fall apart,” Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten finds himself in an invidious position. He knows Labor will be punished electorally if it is seen to be weaker than the government on border security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He knows voters still blame Labor for Kevin Rudd ’s relaxation of border security in 2008 that led to more than 1200 <b>asylum</b>-seekers drowning as more than 50,000 people took boats to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a policy debacle that cost the budget $11 billion, forced the opening of 17 detention centres and denied humanitarian places to other refugees around the world who hoped to seek a new life in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the dying days of his government in 2013, Rudd belatedly ended the rout by pledging that no new <b>boat</b> arrivals would be settled in Australia. While this solved the problem of the boats, it also gave birth to the legal limbo the 1450 <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees now held on Nauru and Manus Island still suffer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten is trying to undo this political damage of the Rudd years by pulling his party to the right on <b>asylum</b>-seekers, winning a hard-fought policy victory at Labor’s national conference last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But with the election campaign under way it is clear that a large rump of the Labor Party remains deeply uncomfortable with the <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy Shorten is taking to the polls. This week it led to a damaging spectacle: Shorten standing next to a critic of Labor’s policy — Cath O’Toole — who happens to be Labor’s candidate for the Townsville-based seat of Herbert. Both awkwardly pretended to agree on <b>asylum</b>-seekers for the cameras.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, Labor candidate Sophie Ismail, who is trying to win the seat of Melbourne off the Greens’ Adam Bandt, bluntly said that turnbacks were wrong and that <b>asylum</b>-seekers could be processed in Australia. Her comments might have helped her cause in the Greens-held electorate, but it came at a much bigger cost to Labor’s image.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, retiring Labor MP Melissa Parke said in her valedictory speech “the present offshore detention system is a festering wound that is killing people and eroding our national character and reputation. It needs to be healed.” This disunity was exactly what Dutton tried to stoke when he cynically scheduled a press conference for Monday — the first day of the campaign — to say that the government had successfully turned back three <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although Labor supports the turnbacks policy, it is one that continues to divide the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Plibersek’s distaste for the concept was palpable this week when the Deputy Labor leader said turning back boats was “something we hope we will never have to do but we have to have it in our policy in case it’s necessary”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor initially opposed turning back boats when it was first raised by Tony Abbott as opposition leader in 2012. The party argued that turnbacks would be dangerous for all concerned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It pointed to the mixed success of previous attempts to turn back boats under the Howard government in Operation Relex.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On eight occasions between 2001 and 2003 the navy turned back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats. Five were successfully returned but three of them sank during interception, forcing the navy to rescue passengers and put them in Australian detention facilities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2011 the then navy chief, Ray Griggs, who was involved in turnbacks in 2001 as commander of the Anzac frigate HMAS Arunta, said turnbacks were not easy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are risks in this whole endeavour … there have been fires lit, attempts to storm the engine compartments of these boats. There have been people jumping in the water, that sort of thing,’’ he told Senate estimates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the navy and Customs learned from that experience and took steps to make turnbacks safer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under current policy, if <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats are not seaworthy, passengers are transferred on to a purpose-built waterproof capsule to take them safely back to land. All boats and capsules are then escorted as closely as possible to Indonesian territorial waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While this policy is still distasteful to those who oppose the theory of turnbacks, it has made them safer for <b>asylum</b>-seekers and navy crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since the start of Operation Sovereign Borders, 26 boats carrying 710 people have been safely turned back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The turnback concept, when combined with the bipartisan policy of not allowing <b>asylum</b>-seekers to settle in Australia, has all but destroyed the people-smuggler trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the government was eager to say this week, it is more than 660 days since an <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessel successfully arrived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But people-smuggling networks are by nature opportunistic and the fact three boats have been turned back so far this year suggests that they still exist, although on a much smaller scale than before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Central to the political debate on <b>asylum</b>-seekers is the unknown question of what would trigger a resumption of the people-smuggling trade. Dutton claims that Labor’s disunity on <b>asylum</b>-seekers gives hope to people-smugglers. “This is a manna from heaven for people-smugglers,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is a lot of intelligence coming out of different parts about people hoping that the election is the turning point for them, that that might be an opportunity for them after the election to restart their people-smuggling busi­nesses.” Dutton’s comments came after an <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> was intercepted off the Cocos Islands last week with the 12 passengers being flown back to Sri Lanka. The fact the passengers were Singhalese rather than from the Tamil minority suggested that they were economic migrants rather than <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is less inclined than the government to believe the people-smuggling trade will be revived so easily. Some within the Labor Left believe a more humane approach is possible without reviving the trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I believe you can be tough on people-smugglers without being weak on humanity,” Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this is an untested theory and will remain so in this campaign because Shorten will not take the electoral risk of appearing weak on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As he pledged this week: “When it comes to people-­smuggling and turnbacks and not having onshore processing by ­people who are smuggled here by criminal syndicates, we are not for turning on our policy.” Labor is just as befuddled as the Turnbull government about what to do with those on Nauru and Manus who were caught out by Rudd’s about-face in 2013 and whose lives remain in limbo as a warning to others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor says it does not support the indefinite detention of those on Nauru and Manus but it offers no solution beyond the promise of an independent oversight of the facilities and faster processing of <b>asylum</b> claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government also has no solution. It has explored — and continues to explore — resettlement options in third countries but with little success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is in talks with Malaysia, Indonesia and The Philippines about the prospects of resettling some of those on Nauru and Manus but no deals have been reached.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agreement painstakingly struck with Cambodia to take some of those on Manus and Nauru has been an expensive failure with only a handful of refugees wanting to live in that country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, the take-up rate for those refugees on Manus Island to live in Papua New Guinea has been pitiful, with only seven of them agreeing to call PNG home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has been involved in delicate negotiations with Iran to try to persuade Tehran to accept some of the Iranian <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island, but no deal has yet emerged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The situation has become more critical since the PNG Supreme Court ruled two weeks ago that the Manus Island detention centre was illegal. PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the centre must be closed and that Australia is responsible for the 850 male <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees housed there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government has used the PNG court’s decision to publicly reinforce its policy of not allowing those in Manus to transfer to Australia. Dutton said this week that the issue would take several months to resolve, meaning a solution will not be forthcoming until after the July 2 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A likely outcome may be that Australia defuses the issue by ­offering a generous aid package to PNG in return for O’Neill’s government creating new laws to circumvent the court’s ruling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other options include Manus being transformed into an “open facility” where people can come and go freely, or Canberra may choose to transfer the 850 men from Manus to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten might be better able to quell unhappiness from his party’s Left on <b>asylum</b>-seekers if he did more to highlight his party’s ­generous pledge to lift Australia’s annual humanitarian intake of refugees from 13,750 to 27,000 by 2025. This compares favourably with the Coalition’s promise to lift the intake from 13,750 to 18,750 in 2018-19, although the government did agree last year to take a one-off 12,000 refugees from the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is this humanitarian intake figure — not the boats issue — that is the true test of compassion on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The humanitarian quota allows for refugees to come to Australia from <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> camps around the world rather than have this quota swallowed up by self-selecting boatpeople undertaking a dangerous voyage, as was the case under the Rudd-Gillard governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Shorten’s more generous policy on <b>refugee</b> intakes is ­ignored by a Labor Left more intent on criticising <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing regardless of the damage to their party.This is a political gift for the Coalition and one it will exploit ruthlessly in the weeks ahead.</p>
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